"Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as……" — 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 think in many different idioms."
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28 Quotes by John Millington Synge
John Millington Synge has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
- A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on…
- As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a…
- A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk…
- Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her…
- No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
- In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
- It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe…
- I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a…
- They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
- A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog,…
- At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good…