John Millington Synge Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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