Top 6 Douglas Hyde Quotes (2025 Update)

Douglas Hyde Quote: “Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.”

1. “Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.”

2. “The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful – a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.”

— Douglas Hyde

3. “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

4. “I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried.”

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5. “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.”

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6. “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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