Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

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

Lady Gregory Quotes