34 Quotes by Laurence Housman

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

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.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

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.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

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.

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.

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.

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.