Hugh Leonard famous quotes

03-24-2025

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Inspirational Life #Past #Life Is
A thing well done is worth doing.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Done #Wells #Well Done
Gossip is more popular than literature.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Gossip #Literature
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
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
In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Life #Class #Two
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
I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Thinking #Play #Perfect
I've always believed in survival.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Survival #Always Believe
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Writing #Able
There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Hilarious #Law #Gentleman
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
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Sin #Said
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Grief #Difficult #Feels
I think with every writer there are two people there.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Thinking #Two #People
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
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Mother #Father #Passionate
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Sarcastic #Country #Genius
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Father #Notes
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
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.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Eye #Wife #One Day
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
-- Hugh Leonard

#Men #Company

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