If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three. — Laurence Housman
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, — Laurence Housman
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. — Laurence Housman
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction — Laurence Housman
But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences — Laurence Housman
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. — Laurence Housman
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow. — Laurence Housman
I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book — Laurence Housman
Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who — Laurence Housman
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try — Laurence Housman
It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary — Laurence Housman
It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation — Laurence Housman
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: — Laurence Housman
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn’t write books to it: I should only write letters to it — Laurence Housman
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write. — Laurence Housman
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for — Laurence Housman
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books – of poems — Laurence Housman
The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics — Laurence Housman
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon st francis as the subject for a series of plays. — Laurence Housman
Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about william blake. Many years later, when his wife died — Laurence Housman
The man who bears my name, and who claims to be me, was born on july 15, 1865, the sixth in a family of seven. — Laurence Housman
The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the great war started — Laurence Housman
Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court — Laurence Housman
That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the — Laurence Housman
Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die — Laurence Housman