74 Quotes by Lady Gregory

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

It takes madness to find out madness.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

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

There’s more learning than is taught in books.

It’s best make changes little by little, the same as you’d put clothes upon a growing child.

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.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness – God save the mark – or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.