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“My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Inspirational Life Quotes
#Past Quotes
#Life Is Quotes
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“A thing well done is worth doing.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Done Quotes
#Wells Quotes
#Well Done Quotes
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“Gossip is more popular than literature.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Gossip Quotes
#Literature Quotes
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“No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Sports Quotes
#Determination Quotes
#Wrestling Quotes
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“I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.”
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Hugh Leonard
#People Quotes
#Arrogant Quotes
#Idiot Quotes
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“In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.”
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Hugh Leonard
Source : Hugh Leonard (1989). “Out after dark”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
#Life Quotes
#Class Quotes
#Two Quotes
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“My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Father Quotes
#Writing Quotes
#Play Quotes
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“I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Thinking Quotes
#Play Quotes
#Perfect Quotes
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“I've always believed in survival.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Survival Quotes
#Always Believe Quotes
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“I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Writing Quotes
#Able Quotes
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“There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Hilarious Quotes
#Law Quotes
#Gentleman Quotes
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“It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Book Quotes
#People Quotes
#Waiting Quotes
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“As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.”
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Hugh Leonard
Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing
#Sin Quotes
#Said Quotes
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“I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Grief Quotes
#Difficult Quotes
#Feels Quotes
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“I think with every writer there are two people there.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Thinking Quotes
#Two Quotes
#People Quotes
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“I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Pain Quotes
#Wife Quotes
#Levels Quotes
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“My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Mother Quotes
#Father Quotes
#Passionate Quotes
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“The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Sarcastic Quotes
#Country Quotes
#Genius Quotes
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“Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Father Quotes
#Notes Quotes
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“We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Kindness Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
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“I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Eye Quotes
#Wife Quotes
#One Day Quotes
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“I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.”
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Hugh Leonard
#Men Quotes
#Company Quotes
