Quotes by Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard

A thing well done is worth doing.

Done

Well Done

Wells

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than ‘a bad turn’ and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is ‘good drying weather’.

Hurricanes

News

Weather

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

Deathbed

Father

Notes

As somebody once said, we’re not punished for our sins, we’re punished by them.

Said

Sin

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Gossip

Literature

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.

Eye

One Day

Wife

I don’t think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

Perfect One

Play

Thinking

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

Difficult

Feels

Grief

I think with every writer there are two people there.

People

Thinking

Two

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.

Arrogant

Idiot

People

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Blitz

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Country

Deathbed

Determination

Difficult

Done

Dying

Enjoyed

Eye

Father

Feels

Funny Life

Gossip

Grandmother

Grief

Hate

Hilarious

Hurricanes

Idiot

Ireland And The Irish

Kindness

Law

Levels

Life

Literature

Mad

Made

Men

Moments

Mother

News

Notes

One Day

Pain

Passionate

Past

People

Perfect One

Play

Said

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Quotes by Hugh Leonard

Hugh Leonard

A thing well done is worth doing.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than ‘a bad turn’ and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is ‘good drying weather’.

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

As somebody once said, we’re not punished for our sins, we’re punished by them.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

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.

I don’t think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

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

I think with every writer there are two people there.

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.

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