Best 20 quotes of Katherine Cecil Thurston on MyQuotes

A good horse is the best company in the world.

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, of the average Saxon.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

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 in the base earth.

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.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.

Most prisons have wide gates!

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.

The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.