33 Lady Gregory Quotes for You to Enjoy

Lady Gregory

Irish Dramatist

Born: Mar 15, 1852

Died: May 22, 1932

Country First Good Great Old Time

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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. Lady Gregory

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible. Lady Gregory

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It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't. Lady Gregory

Battle Old Toothbrush Those Between Use Who

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. Lady Gregory

Music Saying Good Great Man Fighting Every Secretly About Poets Could Had Sons Talk Making Ireland Did Brave Brave Man Them Much Skilled Used Deeds Every Man

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

Kindness Lasting Earth Heaven Found

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

Change Old Before Every Out Trick Dress New Old One Players

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

Most Makes Always Them Show

My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it. Lady Gregory

War Food Day Management Hardships Husband Enough Trenches Months Bad Could Through He Feed House Terrible Without Said Ireland Get Snow Going Maybe Two

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

Best You Clothes Changes Put Make Child Same Little Growing

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. Lady Gregory

Winter School Parents Beginning Baby Drama Back Punch Tell Feast Hyde Delighted Had Put Miss Policeman Judy Irish Modern Children Curses Hold Grand Acted Show Douglas

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. Lady Gregory

To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade. Lady Gregory

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

Man Learning Words Better Will Too Without Get Many

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed! Lady Gregory

Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again. Lady Gregory

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. Lady Gregory

Work Good Theatre People Money Advice Gave Our Say Some Had Make Course Least Been Years Friendly Did May Common Wanted Place Succeed Might Us Who Reasons Whole Why Amusement

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. Lady Gregory

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

God People Thinking More Put Am Prayers Than Them Ever

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

Failure Heart People Way Fail Most Up Keeping

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