Katherine Cecil Thurston (18 April 1875 – 5 September 1911) was an Irish novelist, best known for two political thrillers.
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.
Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.
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.
To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life.
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.
A good horse is the best company in the world.
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.
A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
Most prisons have wide gates!
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!
No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.
by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!
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.