John Millington Synge Quotes

• Oh my grief, I’ve lost him surely. I’ve lost the only Playboy of the Western World.

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• I’ll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what’s a squabble in your back-yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there’s a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed.

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• Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.

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• Well, if the worst comes in the end of all, it’ll be great game to see if there’s none to pity him but a widow woman, the like of me, has buried her children and destroyed her man.

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• They’re all gone now, and there isn’t anything more the sea can do to me.

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• No man at all can be living for ever, and we must be satisfied.

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

   

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• They’re cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

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

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• The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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• The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

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• The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

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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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• It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

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• It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

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• In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

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• In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

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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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• Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

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• Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

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Birth:	16th April, 1871
Death:	24th March, 1909
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Playwright

About

Edmund John Millington Synge was born in Rathfarnham, Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish playwright. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He studied at Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Trinity College in Dublin, and the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He wrote several plays include: In the Shadow of the Glen, Riders to the Sea, The Well of the Saints, The Playboy of the Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, and Deirdre of the Sorrows.

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