If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.

- Laurence Housman

I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do i…

- Laurence Housman

Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unco…

- Laurence Housman

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too word…

- Laurence Housman

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

- Laurence Housman

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession,…

- Laurence Housman

But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of imme…

- Laurence Housman

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blin…

- Laurence Housman

I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old.

- Laurence Housman