Katharine Tynan Quotes
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.
I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
... 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.
January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
