7 Quotes & Sayings By Lady Gregory

Lady Gregory was the Irish poet, dramatist, publisher, and founder of the Abbey Theatre. She was also one of the most influential women of her time, being the first modern feminist writer. Her plays are considered among the most important works of Irish drama. She founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904 with her sister, Synge; Lady Gregory's play Cathleen ni Houlihan won first prize at the first International Drama Competition in Dublin.

1
The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer. Lady Gregory
2
My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through, to be two months without going into a house, under the snow in trenches. And no food to get, maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there, he said, to feed all Ireland; but bad management, they could not get it. Lady Gregory
3
The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart. Lady Gregory
4
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
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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. Lady Gregory
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Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young. Lady Gregory