Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper,… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked… — Katherine Cecil Thurston Copy Share Image
