Douglas Hyde Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Douglas Hyde:

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
~Douglas Hyde


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-hyde-quotes/#34222487

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
~Douglas Hyde


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-hyde-quotes/#2346c2c2

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
~Douglas Hyde


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-hyde-quotes/#a19144c5

I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.
~Douglas Hyde


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-hyde-quotes/#5efea191

I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
~Douglas Hyde


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/douglas-hyde-quotes/#8dd637af

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