Lady Gregory Quotes

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.

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.'

Our Curses On Them That Boil The Eggs Too Hard! What Use Is An Egg That Is Hard To Any Person On Earth?

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.

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.

Ah, I Am Thinking People Put More In Their Prayers Than Was Ever Put In Them By God.

It Is The Old Battle, Between Those Who Use A Toothbrush And Those Who Don't.

It Was On The First Day Of Beltaine, That Is Called Now May Day, The Tuatha De Danaan Came, And It Was To The North-west Of Connacht They Landed. But The Firbolgs, The Men Of The Bag, That Were In Ireland Before Them, And That Had Come From The South, Saw Nothing But A Mist, And It Lying On The Hills.

Well, There's No One At All, They Do Be Saying, But Is Deserving Of Some Punishment From The Very Minute Of His Birth.

Many A Poor Soul Has Had To Suffer From The Weight Of The Debts On Him, Finding No Rest Or Peace After Death.

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.

There Is No Sin Coveting Things Are Of No Great Use Or Profit, But Would Show Out Good And Have Some Grandeur Around Them.