Katharine Tynan Quotes

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

Often our bad moments are self-propelled … And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

The kind need kindness most of all.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

… Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora’s box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.

To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.