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.

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

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.

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.

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

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

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.