Augusta, Lady Gregory - Man Quotes

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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

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

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

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.

Augusta, Lady Gregory

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

Augusta, Lady Gregory