Lady Gregory Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• 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.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Giving Up, World

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Journey, Bravery

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.540, eBookIt.com

• I'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 Gregory

  Running, Country, Charity

  Lady Gregory (1970). “The Collected Plays: Wonder and the supernatural”

• What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Morning, People

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.500, eBookIt.com

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