Katharine Tynan Quotes

#1. 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.

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#2. The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. Religion dies hard in the Irish.

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#6. The kind need kindness most of all.

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

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

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

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

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

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#12. I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

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#13. Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again ...

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

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

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

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

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