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John Millington Synge Quotes: "Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens."

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.




John Millington Synge Quotes: "The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.




John Millington Synge Quotes: "It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea."

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't."

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.




John Millington Synge Quotes: "What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?"

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?



John Millington Synge Quotes: "In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple."

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "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."

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.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied."

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.




John Millington Synge Quotes: "Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple."

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."

A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains"

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains



John Millington Synge Quotes: "The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything."

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."

A translation is no translation, ’ he said, ‘unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.



John Millington Synge Quotes: "Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it."

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.