Oliver St John Gogarty Quotes

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The truth is that every Englishman's house is his hospital, particularly the bathroom.

Oliver St John Gogarty

Only the Lion and the Cock;
As Galen says, withstand Love's shock.
So, dearest, do not think me rude
If I yield now to lassitude,

Oliver St John Gogarty

What you take for lying in an Irishman is only his attempt to put an herbaceous border on stark reality.

Oliver St John Gogarty

Golden stockings you had on
In the meadow where you ran.

Oliver St John Gogarty

I said, 'It is most extraordinary weather for this time of year!' He replied, 'Ah, it isn't this time of year at all.'

Oliver St John Gogarty

The telescope, the microscope and the test-tube have made skeptics of us all. We have changed wisdom for an exact knowledge of stains, precipitants, reactions and refractions, and put it, for this generation at least, beyond recall.

Oliver St John Gogarty

Let Surgeon MacCardle confirm you in Hope. A jockey fell off and his neck it was broke. He lifted him up like a fine, honest man; And he said "He is dead; but I'll do all I can."

Oliver St John Gogarty

Oliver St John Gogarty

Oliver St John Gogarty

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Born: August 17, 1878

Died: September 22, 1957 (aged 79)

Bio: Oliver Joseph St John Gogarty was an Irish poet, author, otolaryngologist, athlete, politician, and well-known conversationalist, who served as the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

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