Quotes by Hugh Leonard - Page 1

A thing well done is worth doing.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Done
Well Done
Wells
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I've always believed in survival.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Always Believe
Survival
Believed
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Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Gossip
Literature
Popular
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My grandmother made dying her life's work.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Dying
Grandmother
Made
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I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Perfect One
Play
Thinking
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I think with every writer there are two people there.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
People
Thinking
Two
Two People
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In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Life
Class
Two
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My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Blitz
Wife
Years
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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Life
Culmination
Moments
Past
Life Moment My Life
Life Past My Life
Moment
My Life
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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Able
Comeback
Writing
Writer
Anything Else
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Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Confused
Mad
Silence
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As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Said
Sin
Punished
Sins
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I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Men
Company
Enjoyed
Better Looking
Men Better Always
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I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Detached
Difficult
Feels
Grief
Observing
Writer
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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Deathbed
Father
Notes
Admired
Arnold
Bennett
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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Father
Play
Writing
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The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Country
Ireland
Ireland And The Irish
Sarcastic
Talent
Absolutely
No Talent
The Problem With
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My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Dominant
Father
Mother
Passionate
Family Father Mother
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I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Died
Levels
Pain
Wife
Nicer
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There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Hilarious
Funny Life
Gentleman
Law
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We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Kindness
Foolishness
Hate
Thinking
Understood
Life Time Hate
Crimes
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It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Book
People
Waiting
Myself People Find
Defensive
Natural Thing
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An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Hurricanes
News
Weather
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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Eye
Living Room
One Day
Standing
Wife
Corner
Vanished
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I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Arrogant
Idiot
People
Life Time Change
Life Change Time
Great Deal
Steered
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We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Devoted
Great Love
Married
Passion
Love Time Great
Fought
Seem
Startled
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No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.
Hugh Leonard / Dramatist
Sports
Determination
Wrestling
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