Laurence Housman

“When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and a subtle fire instantly races beneath my skin.”

“The Fates are just: they give us but three things, To die, to be forgotten, and to see Her face beforehand.”

“You can get almost everything you want out of life, if you are prepared to risk the consequences.”

“Injustice is a thing that has to be fought; and the weapon is truth.”

“Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for it.”

“Censorship is the mother of dullness.”

“When I was young I used to think that pain was the worst thing in the world; I have learned that it is not. The worst thing is to be without feeling.”

“Beauty is a blind alley. It is a mountain peak which once reached leads nowhere.”

“Trouble is a thing that will come without our call; but peace is a thing that we must go and look for.”