Lady Gregory Quotes

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• There's more learning than is taught in books.

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  Education, Book, Learning

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1179, eBookIt.com

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• She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

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  Girl, World, Walks

  "Vanity Fair".

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• The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

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  Heart, People, Way

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.610, eBookIt.com

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• It takes madness to find out madness.

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  Madness

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.52, Wildside Press LLC

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

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  Men, Crosses, Tied

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.109, tredition

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• It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

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  Children, Clothes, Growing

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1096, eBookIt.com

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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, too.

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  College, Men

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.496, eBookIt.com

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

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  Player, Dresses, Tricks

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.1035, eBookIt.com

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• 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.

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  Country, Giving Up, World

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

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• 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

  Pain, Grief, Men

  Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria

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

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  Wasted Time, Feels, Ireland

  "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography".

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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 it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

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  Money, Thinking, Hands

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• 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?

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  Pain, Past, Years

  Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA

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• 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.

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  Strong, Moving, Moon

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.37, Wildside Press LLC

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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.

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  Lonely, Grief, Fighting

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.108, eBookIt.com

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

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  Years, World, Malice

  Lady Gregory (2008). “New Irish Comedies”, p.54, Wildside Press LLC

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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.

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  Morning, Kings, Fall

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.72, tredition

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• It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

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  Shows

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

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  Kindness, Heaven, Earth

  Lady Gregory (1971). “The Tragedies & Tragic Comedies”, Dufour Editions

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

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  Years, People, Advice

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: The tragedies and tragic-comedies”, Colin Smythe

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• 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.

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  Running, Country, Charity

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”

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• 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.

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  Men, Firsts, Greyhounds

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.495, eBookIt.com

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• 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.

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  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

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  School, Years, People

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish”, p.2, tredition

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• 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.

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  May, Blind, Week

  Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.21, tredition

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