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.

Katharine Tynan

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

Katharine Tynan

#3. She felt like she was leaving home, and had no idea when she'd be back again, if ever.

Danielle Steel

#4. In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

Mason Cooley

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

Katharine Tynan

#6. 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.

Katharine Tynan

#7. Religion dies hard in the Irish.

Katharine Tynan

#8. The kind need kindness most of all.

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

Katharine Tynan

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

Katharine Tynan

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

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#12. The founding fathers, whose infinite wisdom gave us a Constitution and form of government well nigh perfect, located the seat of that government in a stinking, steaming swamp.

Mark Leibovich

#13. We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Marcus Aurelius

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

Katharine Tynan

#15. On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

Mindy Kaling

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

Katharine Tynan

#17. Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E.W. Howe

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

Katharine Tynan

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

Katharine Tynan

#20. Love is only found in books

Ellen Hopkins

#21. Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie

Kresley Cole

#22. There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it.

Ben Hecht

#23. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn't look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I'd still be in Savannah.

Clarence Thomas

#24. One cannot choose how one's life begins but one can choose to face the end with courage

Jet Li

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

Katharine Tynan

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

Katharine Tynan

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

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

Katharine Tynan