Lady Gregory Quotes

52 quotes in 818 categories

• 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…
• Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon.…
• It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
• There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
• Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
• Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
• It takes madness to find out madness.
• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
• Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
• Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
• It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.
• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
• There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
• There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.
• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country…
• 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…
• 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…

Browse Lady Gregory Quotes by Category