Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 July 1865
clumsy entire letters stage
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.
abolish capital civilised countrymen hope suicide time
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.
novels poems tales
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.
saint goodness attractive
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.