Depends Quote by John Millington Synge

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

— John Millington Synge

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic…

— John Millington Synge

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and…

— John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

— John Millington Synge

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after…

— John Millington Synge

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood…

— John Millington Synge

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

— John Millington Synge

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

— John Millington Synge

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he…

— John Millington Synge

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and…

— John Millington Synge

Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill…

— John Millington Synge

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

— John Millington Synge