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

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

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

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

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

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.