Augusta, Lady Gregory Quotes

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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 and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 nothing.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 he has got something contrary in his body.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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.

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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 of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 a huntsman would take pleasure being made a present of a dead fox, in place of getting a run across country after it.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

Augusta, Lady Gregory
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 and played in America.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 him, at some place in Kerry.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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.

Augusta, Lady Gregory
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 Or dare to wish that we had never met?

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

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