Lady Gregory Quotes

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

There's more learning than is taught in books.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?