Lady Gregory Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.”
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“Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?”
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“There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.”
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“There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.”
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“There's more learning than is taught in books.”
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“It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.”
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“It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.”
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“The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.”
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“There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.”
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“Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.”
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“Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.”
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“I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.”
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“It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.”
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“Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.”
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“Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.”
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“Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.”
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“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.”
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“I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.”
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