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Quotes from Tarry Flynn — Patrick Kavanagh

1904–1967 Ireland

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In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.

Tarry Flynn (1948)

'Begod there's a powerful piece of turnips'

Tarry Flynn (1948)

With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man.

Tarry Flynn (1948)

The headlands and the hedges were so fresh and wonderful, so gay with the dawn of the world. Tarry never tired looking at these ordinary things as he tired of the Mass and of religion. In a dim way he felt that he was not a Christian. In the god of Poetry he found a God more important to him than Christ. His god had never accepted Christ.

Tarry Flynn (1948)

'I always say to these here, marry the first man that asks you. There's only three classes of men a woman should never marry - a delicate man, a drunken man, and a lazy man. I'm not so sure that the lazy man isn't the worst.'

Tarry Flynn (1948)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Patrick Kavanagh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.