“In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest—usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation—and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.”
“What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?”
“I’m a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.”
“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.”
“May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.”
“They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.”
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