Laurence Housman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Laurence Housman quotes and sayings page 2 (playwright). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 25 we have.

“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 written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.”
“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 been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“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, high up in the social scale.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“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.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“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 of all.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“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 in blinkers.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.”
Laurence Housman Quotes
“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 become too wordy to write economically for the stage.”

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