All Lady Gregory Quotes
- 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… Able
- Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon.… Bad
- It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't. Battle
- The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. Fail
- There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. Better
- Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. Day
- Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before. Change
- I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. Feel
- It takes madness to find out madness. Find
- Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death. 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. All
- Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God. Ah
- It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show. Funny
- It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child. Best
- Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth? Any
- There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth. 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. Coveting
- We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country… Along
- 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… Blind
- 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… Anyone
- 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… Along
- 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… Bird
- 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… Acted
- I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I… Argument
- 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… Across