irrelevance quotes

'I call it a criminal thing in any one's great-great- grandfather to rear up a preposterous troop of sons and plant them all out in his own country', Lady Knox said to me with apparent irrelevance.'I detest collaterals. Blood may be thicker than water, but it is also a great deal nastier.'

-Martin Ross
  Some Experiences of an Irish R.M.,'Philippa's Fox-Hunt'.