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

- Katharine Tynan

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

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

- Katharine Tynan

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

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

- Katharine Tynan

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

- Katharine Tynan

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

- Katharine Tynan

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

- Katharine Tynan

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