Author: Laurence Housman

Quotes

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.

- Laurence Housman

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front.

- 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, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

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.

- Laurence Housman

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

- 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.

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

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

- 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.

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 believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

- Laurence Housman

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