Hugh Leonard Quotes

• My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

  Hugh Leonard

  Life, Past, Moments

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• A thing well done is worth doing.

  Hugh Leonard

  Done, Wells, Well Done

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• Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

  Hugh Leonard

  Confused, Mad, Silence

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• There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

  Hugh Leonard

  Hilarious, Funny Life, Law

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  People, Arrogant, Idiot

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• An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

  Hugh Leonard

  Weather, News, Hurricanes

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  Sports, Determination, Wrestling

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• Gossip is more popular than literature.

  Hugh Leonard

  Gossip, Literature

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• I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

  Hugh Leonard

  Grief, Difficult, Feels

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• In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

  Hugh Leonard

  Life, Class, Two

  Hugh Leonard (1989). “Out after dark”, Andre Deutsch Ltd

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  Father, Writing, Play

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• My grandmother made dying her life's work.

  Hugh Leonard

  Grandmother, Dying, Made

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• The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

  Hugh Leonard

  Sarcastic, Country, Ireland And The Irish

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• As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

  Hugh Leonard

  Sin, Said

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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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  Writing, Able, Comeback

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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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  Men, Company, Enjoyed

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• I've always believed in survival.

  Hugh Leonard

  Survival, Always Believe

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• My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

  Hugh Leonard

  Years, Wife, Blitz

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• I think with every writer there are two people there.

  Hugh Leonard

  Thinking, Two, People

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  Pain, Wife, Levels

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  Kindness, Hate, Thinking

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• Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

  Hugh Leonard

  Father, Notes, Deathbed

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• I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

  Hugh Leonard

  Thinking, Perfect One, Play

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• My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

  Hugh Leonard

  Mother, Father, Passionate

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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.

  Hugh Leonard

  Book, People, Waiting

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