Maurice Walsh > Quotes

“I will spread green rushes under her feet that she may step softly”
― Maurice Walsh, Green Rushes

“but no man should need much”; and, as if to prove his point, hummed an old verse out of the Gaelic: If I had a singing brown thrush,   And a hound that well knew I was God, And a rose peeping out of a bush,   And shamrocks in the green green sod, And a little, little small house   And a red, red apple tree, I would thank the Almighty God   So good, and so good to me.”
― Maurice Walsh, While Rivers Run

“Night was falling and rain from the Atlantic pelting us before we got home, and I was glad of a change of clothes and one stiff whisky - whisky of a subtle serenity that might draw to itself any lone man with a shadow on his soul.”
― Maurice Walsh, Green Rushes

“Woman, in the decadent world around us, captures a man by loving him, and, having got him, sometimes comes to admire him, which is all to the good; and, if Fate is not unkind, may descend no lower than liking and enduring.”
― Maurice Walsh, The Quiet Man and Other Stories

“Ultimately you will discover that he is, quite simply and without pose, a compound of gentleman and tramp, hermit and wanderer, scholar and ignoramus, realist and idealist, and of many other things as well—in short, a seeker of beauty and a believer in the dominion of reason over imagination.”
― Maurice Walsh, The Key Above the Door