There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
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 GregoryI'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 GregoryIn 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