13 Katharine Tynan Quotes

Katharine Tynan writes tender, reflective reflections on time, loss, and friendship.

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.
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I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.
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.
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.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
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.
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
The kind need kindness most of all.
January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.