My dislike is, that, for the sake of carrying through certain measures necessary to Irish interests, I must sit and discuss questions which have no possible concern for me, and touch me no more than the debates in the Cortes, or the Reichskammer at Vienna.

What do you or I care for who rules India, or who owns Turkey?
What interest of mine is it whether Great Britain has five ironclads or fifty, or whether the Yankees take Canada, and the Russians Kabul ?' 'You're a Fenian, and I am not.' 'I suppose you'd call yourself an Englishman ?' 'I am an English subject, and I owe my allegiance to England.' 'Perhaps for that matter, I owe some too; but I owe a great many things that I don't distress myself about paying.' 'Whatever your sentiments are on these matters--and, Joe, I am not disposed to think you have any very fixed ones--pray do me the favour to keep them to yourself while under my father's roof.

I can almost promise you he'll obtrude none of his peculiar opinions on _you_, and I hope you will treat _him_ with a like delicacy.' 'What will your folks talk, then?
I can't suppose they care for books, art, or the drama.

There is no society, so there can be no gossip.

If that yonder be the cabin of one of your tenants, I'll certainly not start the question of farming.' 'There are poor on every estate,' said Dick curtly.
'Now what sort of a rent does that fellow pay--five pounds a year ?' 'More likely five-and-twenty or thirty shillings.' 'By Jove, I'd like to set up house in that fashion, and make love to some delicately-nurtured miss, win her affections, and bring her home to such a spot.