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.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

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.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.