Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
Lady GregoryWe 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.
Lady GregoryMany a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady GregoryAs to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
Lady GregoryIt 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.
Lady Gregory