Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman
Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth18 July 1865
few national near prizes south style though took
Though while at South Kensington I took a few prizes in the National Competition, I did not get near to having a style of my own.
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.
faster mine poems wrote
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.
teacher teaching doe
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
saint goodness attractive
A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.