I don’t think Ireland has ever had a genius for the novel. Of course, there were plenty of Irish novels, but I don’t think that was ever the natural means of expression for the Irish. Lady Gregory Read Quote
Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. Lady Gregory Read Quote
There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them. Lady Gregory Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It was in a stonecutter’s house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery’s grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters. Lady Gregory Read Quote
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. Lady Gregory Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It’s best make changes little by little, the same as you’d put clothes upon a growing child. Lady Gregory Read Quote
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. Lady Gregory Read Quote
