Best quotes by Lady Gregory on Country

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• ‟ What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

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• ‟ 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.'

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• ‟ Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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