periphery quotes

While I have a tongue I'll abuse you, you most inimitable periphery. Look at her, boys! there she standsa convicted perpendicular in petticoats! There's contamination in her circumference, and she trembles with guilt down to the extremities of her corollaries. Ah! you're found out, you rectilineal antecedent, and equiangular old hag! 'Tis with you the devil will flyaway, you porter-swiping similitude of the bisection of a vortex!

- Daniel known as  the Liberator O'Connell
Winning thrust in a vituperation contest with Dublin's champion virago, Biddy Moriarty, reported by Daniel Owen-Madden in Revelations of Ireland (1877). US  novelist,  originally  a  radio  announcer  and  producer,  best known   for   his   novel   The   Last   Hurrah   (1956).  The   Edge   of Sadness (1961) won a Pulitzer Prize.