Irish Confederate Wars/the Plot - October 1641

Famous quotes containing the words irish, confederate, wars, plot and/or october:

    “I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “We have to have wars now and then just to prove we’re top dog.”
    —Reginald Berkeley (1890–1935)

    “The plot was most interesting. It belonged to no particular age, people, or country, and was perhaps the more delightful on that account, as nobody’s previous information could afford the remotest glimmering of what would ever come of it.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    “The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)