John Millington Synge

“It's a grand thing to be talking with a man that has drank his fill and seen troubles in the world.”

“There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.”

“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.”

“A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't.”

“There's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.”

“What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?”

“All art is a collaboration.”

“It's a lonesome thing to be passing small towns in the late night.”

“It's the fools of the world that are the happy men.”

“The drama is made serious... by the degree in which it gives the nourishment, not very easy to define, on which our imaginations live.”

“Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone...”