Patrick Taylor > Quotes

“Barry remembered his dad saying that the casualties of war couldn't be counted only among the dead and the wounded.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor

“It's like the fellah in the lavatory said, No job's over 'til the paperwork's done.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Village

“Don’t ever be sorry for following your dream. Of all emotions, regret is the most futile.”
― Patrick Taylor, A Dublin Student Doctor

“Old boy, in this life there will always be a certain amount of shit to be shovelled. I really would urge you to buy a long-handled spade and simply get on with it.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor

“-Lo siento, señorita MacCorkle. ¿Y cuál es su problema?
-Los dolores de cabeza.
[...]
-¿Por encima de su cabeza?
-Oh, sí. A unos buenos cinco centímetros.
[...]
O´Reilly se inclinó por encima de Barry y cogió de la mesa un frasco de plástico con grageas de vitaminas.
-Éstas te servirán.
Luego el hombretón fue empujándola suavemente hacia la puerta.
-Éstas son especiales Maggie.
Ella asintió.
-Deberás tomarlas exactamente como te diga.
-Sí, doctor. ¿Y cómo será eso?
-Media hora.- Sus siguientes palabras fueron enunciadas con gran solemnidad-: Exactamente media hora antes de que el dolor comience.”
― Patrick Taylor (Doctor en Irlanda)

“Procrastination is, as Edward Young said in about sixteen ninety-five, the thief of time.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Christmas

“Discovery . . . favours the prepared mind. And there are no better prepared minds in medicine than good nurses.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Doctor in Love and at Sea

“comfortable room, knowing”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Christmas

“in such generous form tonight when it comes”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Christmas

“The envelope he was carrying was dated January 15, 1965, a Saturday—and it had snowed then too.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Yuletide: An Irish Country Novella

“He felt a deep sense of belonging here and could understand why the Americans came. Nothing in their bustling, striving, brand-new country could ever attain the permanence of a place like Bangor—or Ballybucklebo. If they were seeking their roots, they’d find them, deep and firmly anchored.”
― Patrick Taylor, "An Irish Country Village: A Novel" by Patrick Taylor and & "The Last Lecture...

“Tired with the Labour of Far Travel We Have Come unto Our Own Home O”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Courtship

“His lordship has something”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Wedding

“Never try to work important things out in the muddle of the night.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Family: An Irish Country Novel

“going to be a hard place to leave, but Ballymena was no”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Wedding

“in this life there will always be a certain amount of shit to be shovelled. I really would urge you to buy a long-handled spade and simply get on with it.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor

“I’m so hungry I could eat a farmer’s arse t’rough a tennis racquet.”
― Patrick Taylor, A Dublin Student Doctor

“Egan. It’s derived from MacAodhagáin. The family were the brehons, the hereditary lawyers and judges, to the chieftains of Roscommon.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Christmas

“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Family: An Irish Country Novel

“that,”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Family: An Irish Country Novel

“It’s”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Country Doctor

“He admired anyone who clearly believed rules were for the obedience of idiots and merely for the guidance of wise folks.”
― Patrick Taylor, A Dublin Student Doctor

“crumble it like chalk powder into the dimple on the can he was holding sideways. Slowly, he heaped”
― Patrick Taylor, Hardhat Ballet: Adventures of a Young Man Exploring the World

“O’Reilly passed a table where Gerry Shanks was telling a joke to his friends. Gerry nodded to O’Reilly but didn’t break his stride. “… so there’s your mountaineer man on a ledge a hundred feet down, both arms broken, and this other climber higher up throws him down a rope and says he, ‘Grab you on til that there with your teeth and I’ll get you up here, so I will.’” O’Reilly saw the grins on the men’s faces, heard their chuckles already beginning. Gerry had a reputation as a storyteller. “So the one at the top starts pulling away and pulling away.” Gerry accompanied his words with the motions of a man hauling hand over hand on a rope. “He’s working like blue blazes.” O’Reilly had to hear the punch line. “And then, as your other man’s head appears level with the safe ground, the one pulling gasps, takes a big deep breath, and says, ‘Are you all right, Paddy?’ “‘I aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam,’ says Paddy,” and as Gerry spoke he let his voice fall from a yell to a whisper.”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War

“Englishmen”
― Patrick Taylor, An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War