Lady Gregory Professions : Dramatist Born : March 15, 1852 Died : May 22, 1932 Browse All Authors Top 49 quotes by 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 college men It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man. Lady Gregory tied crosses men 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. Lady Gregory giving-up country world 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 It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child. Lady Gregory clothes growing children She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself. Lady Gregory girl walks world The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. Lady Gregory heart people way It takes madness to find out madness. Lady Gregory madness 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 tricks player dresses 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. Lady Gregory strong moon moving 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 advice people years 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 land race son 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. Lady Gregory money hands thinking Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. Lady Gregory malice world years 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? Lady Gregory pain past years 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. Lady Gregory greyhounds men firsts 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. Lady Gregory fighting grief lonely I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland. Lady Gregory ireland wasted-time feels It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show. Lady Gregory shows 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. Lady Gregory loyal queens body Similar Authors Brian Friel dramatist Antoine-Marin Lemierre dramatist Aphra Behn dramatist Arnold Wesker dramatist Armand Salacrou dramatist Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza dramatist All Authors
