"In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,'……" — Lady Gregory
"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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52 Quotes by Lady Gregory
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It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of…
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Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its…
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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
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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,…
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good…
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Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as…
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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It takes madness to find out madness.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or…
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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…
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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 educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
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