All John Millington Synge Quotes
- The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. Doe
- A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't. Afraid
- As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the… Aim
- A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every… Anywhere
- Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. Blight
- No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. All
- In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. Apple
- It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has… Canoe
- I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. Blotting
- They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. Champion
- A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further… Came
- At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a… Any
- In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation… Artist
- The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. Curiously
- It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms. Among
- What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? Horse
- Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. Brutal
- Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty… All
- There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. Inspirational
- Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think… Another Favourite
- In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of… Bare
- Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. Dangerous
- The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate… Complaint
- A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. Along
- The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of… Absence