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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
I'm trying to think of what I'm ashamed of. But, damn, I don't really have any shame.
— Leighton Meester
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
— John Millington Synge
Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
— John Millington Synge
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
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
— John Millington Synge
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
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
— John Millington Synge
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
— John Millington Synge
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
— John Millington Synge
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
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
— Dean Koontz
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
— John Millington Synge
At the front door I see Tommy, a dark, unhappy shape in the middle of the sunny afternoon. We match, I think. But we don't go together.
— Amanda Maciel
A president is always cosseted by his staff.
— Monica Crowley
All the rare and royal namesWormy sheepskin yet retains — John Millington Synge
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
— John Millington Synge
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
— John Millington Synge