Laurence Housman Quotes

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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,…
• 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.
• 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…
• I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
• 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…
• I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
• 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…
• If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
• 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…
• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
• A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
• I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.
• It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion -…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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