Quotes by John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge

Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer

Lived from: 1871 - 1909

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 16 april 1871 Died: 24 march 1909

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  • I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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  • In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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  • In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
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  • Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
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