Laurence Housman Quotes & Sayings

Subtopics. Find Laurence Housman quotes about:
Laurence Housman Quotes About:  
Total: 25 Quotes
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted.
 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
 Laurence Housman quotes 
Suggest Revision: 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.
 
Sign up to unlock more quotes and new features!
New Updates! (5/21/2013) We've been working really hard on completing our membership system so you can submit quotes and keep track of them. Once this is complete in the coming weeks there will be a lot more quotes by Laurence Housman and other authors. We've also changed the sorting on the site so you now see the latest Laurence Housman quotes first. Our goal is to have the best Laurence Housman quotes on the web!
Quotes by Laurence Housman
quotes by Laurence Housman
Sponsored
Remove Ads
Tuesday, May 21
Today's most popular search phrases
25th Wedding Anniversary Wishes   A Real Woman Doesnt Cha   A Special Friend To Me   Adult Funny Jok   Amazing God   Best Sorry For Her   Blue Eyed Beauty   Disappointed   Feeling Better   Funny Attitude   Funny Sister   Funny Whatsapp Status   Girls Crying   Good Evening   Guy Bestfreind   Happy 18th Birthday Sister   Happy Moments With Cousins   Happy Upbeat Life   Happy Wedding Anniversary Parents   Hurt Feelings   I Your My Everything   J M G Le Cl   Jumma Mubark   Karma Pay Back Time   Leap Yearing Tired   Left Hangin   Love For A Brother Who Has Ped Away   Meant To Be   Mother Hurt Child   Never Waste A Disaster   Plastic Surgery   Pressure For Survival   Some Motivational One Sided Love   Strong Man Strong Woman   Teacher Retirement   Team Buiding   Teenage Girls Life   Think Before You Speak   Unlearn   Vindictive   William Shakes Sphere   You Are My World   You Have Potential   You Never Knowembly   Your Pretty Without Makeup  
Become a Member!
  • Gain access to thousands of new quotes only available to registered users.
  • Browse the site a lot faster with fewer advertisements.
  • Collect your favorite quotes to access and share at any time.
  • 100% Free! We will never charge you anything and our content is completely user driven!
    • Sponsored
    Our goal is to help you by delivering amazing quotes to bring inspiration, personal growth, love and happiness to your everyday life.
    Copyright © 2013 Searchquotes.com and/or its licensors. All rights reserved. Use of this site is subject to Terms of Service and to our Privacy Policy. Developed by Searchquotes.com.