Hugh Leonard Quotes
"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Love, Time, People, Passion, Years)
"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
(Related: Life, Time, Foolishness, Hate)
"The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Talent, Genius, Country, Ireland)
"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Family, Mother, Father)
"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Life, Past)
"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Death, Father, Play, Writing)
"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
(Related: People, First, Question, Waiting)
"I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Men, Company, Woman)
"I've always believed in survival."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Survival)
"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
(Related: Wife, Pain)
"I think with every writer there are two people there."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: People, Writer)
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Grief, Writer)
"I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Play)
"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
(Related: Wife, Day, Eye, Illusion, Living)
"Gossip is more popular than literature."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Gossip, Literature, Popular)
"As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them."
- Hugh Leonard
"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Father, Writer)
"A thing well done is worth doing."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Worth)
"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
- Hugh Leonard
(Related: Writer)