Quotes by Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory

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

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Thinking

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.

Fighting

Grief

Lonely

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.

Firsts

Greyhounds

Men

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Malice

World

Years

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

Dresses

Player

Tricks

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.

Fall

Moon

Stars

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.

Bird

Rising

Son

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.

Fall

Kings

Morning

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.

Baby

Children

Drama

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Feels

Ireland

Wasted Time

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Quotes by Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory

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

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.

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.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

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.

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.

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.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

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