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.

Lady Gregory

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

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

prayer people thinking

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.

charity running country

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

punishment birth minutes

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upo... by Lady Gregory

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

earth kindness heaven

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.

fighting men son

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.

people years school

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

tragedy play writing

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.

week blind may

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.

baby drama children

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.

home sheep years

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.

journey bravery country

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.

stars moon fall

There's more learning than is taught in books. by Lady Gregory

There's more learning than is taught in books.

learning education book

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

debt soul suffering

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and thos... by Lady Gregory

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

toothbrushes battle use

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.'

morning country people

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.

done young men

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

eggs use earth

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.

twenties play america

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

rising bird son