Laurence Housman Quotes
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
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.
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
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.
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
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 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.
If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.
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.
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.