Hugh Leonard Quotes

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

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

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

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.

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

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

I think with every writer there are two people there.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

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

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

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.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

A thing well done is worth doing.

No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.

I've always believed in survival.

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.

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