Hugh Leonard Quotes

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

Life, Past, Moment

A thing well done is worth doing.
Hugh Leonard

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

Life, Change, Time

Gossip is more popular than literature.
Hugh Leonard

Gossip, Literature, Popular

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

Said, Once, Somebody

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

Difficult, Writer, Grief

I think with every writer there are two people there.
Hugh Leonard

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, Person

I've always believed in survival.
Hugh Leonard

Survival, Believed

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
Hugh Leonard

Men, Woman, Looking

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

Family, Mother, Father

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

Country, Problem, Talent

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

Father, Actually, Writer

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

Perfect, Play, Anyone

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

Else, Able, Write

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard

Death, Father, Writing

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

Wife, Down, Living

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

Waiting, Book, Find

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

Life, Time, Hate

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

Love, Time, Great

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 9, 1926

Died: February 12, 2009

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