Usually Better Quotes by Hugh Leonard

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

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…

— Hugh Leonard

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

— Hugh Leonard

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…

— Hugh Leonard

Gossip is more popular than literature.

— Hugh Leonard

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

— Hugh Leonard

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

— Hugh Leonard

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

— Hugh Leonard

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

— Hugh Leonard

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

— Hugh Leonard

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

— Hugh Leonard

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…

— Hugh Leonard