Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
Lady GregoryIt's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
Lady GregoryOur curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
Lady GregoryWhat 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.'
Lady GregoryIt 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