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" 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
Dress
Old
Out
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" It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last. "
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Last
Now
Over
" Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth. "
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Punishment
Birth
Well
" 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. "
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Strength
Good
I Am
" 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. "
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Soul
Childhood
Grief
" 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. "
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Winter
School
Children
" There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too. "
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Learning
Better
Man
" 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
Back
Blood
" 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
Charity
Run
Present
" 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. "
Lady Gregory
History
Irish
Born
" 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. "
Lady Gregory
America
London
Irish
" When death comes, it is not enough to have been charitable; and it is not right to touch the body or lay it out for a couple of hours; for the soul should be given time to fight for itself, and to go up to judgment. "
Lady Gregory
Time
Body
Death
" 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
Country
Great Man
Man
" 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
Good
Brave
Music
" I really do not see why there is not a splendid field for good work on the music hall stage, and if I did not have my own theatre taking up my time, I should rather like to go into it. "
Lady Gregory
My Own
Good
Theatre
" When I was a child and came with my elders to Galway for their salmon fishing in the river that rushes past the gaol, I used to look with awe at the window where men were hung, and the dark, closed gate. "
Lady Gregory
Past
Window
River
" 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
Dance
Great
Music
" I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland. "
Lady Gregory
Time
Spent
Ireland
" 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
Day
Bad
Food
" 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
Genius
Expression
Think
" 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
World
Dark
Fall
" Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place. "
Lady Gregory
Year
Every Day
Good
" What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation. "
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Drama
Great
Country
" 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. "
Lady Gregory
Dead
Play
Writing
" 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. "
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Childhood
Time
Bible
" It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't. "
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Toothbrush
Who
Use
" 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. "
Lady Gregory
Poetry
Better
Great
" The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. "
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Way
Fail
Failure
" It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show. "
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Them
Always
Most
" 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
She
Queen
Government
" 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
Blind
Every Day
True