"I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night."

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Source : Lady Gregory (2012). “Three Wonder Plays”, p.72, tredition

Lady Gregory

#Morning Quotes #Kings Quotes #Fall Quotes

“I shall drink no #â€Ž wine before it's time! OK, it's time.”
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.”
“When you are in a hole, stop digging!”
“We are scattered, stunned; the remnant of heart left alive is filled with brotherly hate... Whose fault? Everybody blamed somebody else. Only the dead heroes left stiff and stark on the battlefield escape.”
“People read every thing nowadays, except books.”
“In dreams begin responsibilities.”
“We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. No other objective facts have been presented in recent time. The IPCC's reports in 1990 and 1995 show it clearly.”
“If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.”

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