All Lady Gregory Quotes
- 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… Bin
- 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… Advice
- 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.'… Dead
- 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… Been
- 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… Brave
- 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… Among
- 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… Afterwards
- It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west… Bag
- Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… Been
- 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… Body
- 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… Adapted
- 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… Along
- Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would… All
- What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It… Always Say
- She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself. Afraid
- 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… Been
- 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… Accept
- It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea,… Air
- It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was… Danaan
- To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every… All
- When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I… Awe
- The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died… All
- My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a… All
- Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the… Buried
- When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for… Been