Lady Gregory Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Lady Gregory quotes and sayings page 2 (dramatist). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 52 we have.
“Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.”
“Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.”
“Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.”
“It takes madness to find out madness.”
“It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.”
“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.”
“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.”
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