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.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

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.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.

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.

As 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.