Lady Gregory Quotes

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

There's more learning than is taught in books.

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

It takes madness to find out madness.

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

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

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

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

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.

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

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

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

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?

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

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

The time the moon is going back, the blood that is in a person does be weakening, but when the moon is strong, the blood that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.

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.

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

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

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

I'll take no charity! What I get I'll earn by taking it. I would feel no pleasure it being given to me, any more than a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

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.

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.