34 Quotes by Laurence Housman

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

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.

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.

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 letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily.

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 medieval in its treatment.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on July 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. He was an ugly child, and remained ugly till his eighteenth year, when his looks gradually improved.

Though while at South Kensington I took a few prizes in the National Competition, I did not get near to having a style of my own.

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.