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. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. — Laurence Housman Copy Share
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… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
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… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
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… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to… — Laurence Housman Copy Share
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. — Laurence Housman Copy Share
