101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship ☰

Lady Gregory

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 and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
— Lady Gregory love
It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.
— Lady Gregory battle
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 house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it.
— Lady Gregory war
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.
— Lady Gregory art
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
— Lady Gregory death
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 a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.
— Lady Gregory hope
Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
— Lady Gregory change
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
— Lady Gregory time
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
— Lady Gregory art
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
— Lady Gregory words
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.
— Lady Gregory men
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
— Lady Gregory world
It takes madness to find out madness.
— Lady Gregory madness
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
— Lady Gregory change
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
— Lady Gregory world
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 Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.
— Lady Gregory children
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 that moves strong in the same way. And it to be at the full, it drags the wits along with it, the same as it drags the tide.
— Lady Gregory time
There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!
— Lady Gregory art
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 have done other things but that he died young.
— Lady Gregory poetry
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 night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
— Lady Gregory good
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.
— Lady Gregory stars
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 have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
— Lady Gregory men
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, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
— Lady Gregory god
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 First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.
— Lady Gregory art
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 deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.
— Lady Gregory music

Share your thoughts on Lady Gregory quotes with the community:

Maybe you are looking for Lady Gregory quotes, Lady Gregory sayings?

Here are quotes most suitable for various topics. In the web you can find use by keywords: quotes Lady Gregory Lady Gregory quotes Lady Gregory sayings Lady Gregory famous quotes Lady Gregory best quotes

101sharequotes Quotes Topics Famous Occupations Motivation Inspirational Life Love Funny Success Friendship