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… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing. — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of… — Katharine Tynan Copy Share Image
