On being told that he was seven minutes late for the handover of Dublin Castle from the British to the Irish Free State:

We've been waiting 700 years, you can have the seven minutes.


As quoted in: Michael Collins (1990) by Tim Pat Coogan

Michael Collins Quotes

We've been waiting 700 years, you can have the seven minutes.

We've been waiting 700 years, you can have the seven minutes.

We've been waiting 700 years, you can have the seven minutes.

We've been waiting 700 years, you can have the seven minutes.