Quotes by Laurence Housman - Page 1

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Attractive
Goodness
Saint
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I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
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Dies
May
Young
Near
Seventy
Shall
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Believe
Force
Love Is
Motive
Universe
Love Believe I Believe
Central
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If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
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Father
Mother
Three
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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Ten
Want
Writing
Years
Shall
Ten Years
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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
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Fairy
Tales
Fairy Tales
Followed
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
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Appreciation
Teacher
Teaching
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Human Race
Humans
Race
Thinking
One Nation
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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Benefits
Brother
Doubtful
Half
Reputation
Benefit
Literary
Life My Life My Own
Whose
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My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
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Brother
Faster
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If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Marriage
Parenting
Mom
Baby
Mothers Day
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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.
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Groove
Pursuit
Sun
Versatile
Author
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
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Book
Generous
Mind
Thinking
Twenties
Minds
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It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Best Way
Medieval
My Generation
Treatment
Bringing
Discovered
Subject
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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Littles
Modern
Satire
Scale
Appeal
Begun
Material
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It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.
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Caught
Contrary
Drama
Harmony
Sincerest
Struggling
Toils
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Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance.
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Blake
Died
Remembrance
Wife Me Anything
Godfather
William
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.
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Book
Letters
Long
Writing
Easily
Quickly
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That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Luck
Conscientious
Front
Soon
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If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.
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Romantic
Clumsy
Letters
Stage
All The World
Entire
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Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Life
Men
Father
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Men
Letters
Too Late
Writing
Good Myself Man
Dramatist
Economically
Wordy
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Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Trust
Capital Punishment
Civilised
Countrymen
Punishment
Suicide
Unlikely
By The Time
Capital
Hanging
Probable
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My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Art
Disappointment
Right Direction
Writing
Caused
Alternative
Direction
Drove
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The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
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Acceptable
Great War
Mere
Volunteer
War Great Me
Connection
Dates
Followed
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My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Advantage
Series
Francis
Plays
Remain
Subject
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The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Bears
Claims
July
Family Man Me
Sixth
Eighteenth
Gradually
Improved
Till
Remained
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
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Healthy
Imaginary
Obsession
Orthodoxy
Possession
Trying
Youth
Iconoclastic
Reaction
Result
Tale
Throw
Tribe
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
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Arrested
Court
Police
Prison
Prosecution
Regret
Avoid
Charged
Refused
Released
Unconditionally
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But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.
Laurence Housman / Playwright
Appreciation
Smile
Activity
Feet
Giving
Lecturer
Play
Pleasure
Reader
Reviews
Stimulus
Audiences
Further
Towards
Immediate
Plays
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