Katharine Tynan Quotes

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Everything has an ending: there will be
An ending one sad day for you and me,
And ending of the days we had together,
The good companionship, all kinds of weather.

Katharine Tynan
I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

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

Katharine Tynan
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.

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

Katharine Tynan
The way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

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

Katharine Tynan
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

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

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

Katharine Tynan
I love the sweet linnet, the lark, and the thrush, And the gold-throated blackbird with a song in each bush ; The finch and the robin, I love everyone, But not the pied magpie that's walking alone.

Katharine Tynan