Douglas Hyde Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Tree #Legends #Strange
“As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Educational #Passing Away #Culture
“I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Character #Helping #Celtic
“It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Way #Language #Shame
“By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Heart #Light #World
“I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Wish #Language #Share
“The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.”
-- Douglas Hyde

#Powerful #Moving #Passion

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