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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
