John Millington Synge Irish Quotations

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

The freedom of the sand seemed to give a stronger spirit of revolt, and some of the animals were only caught after a dangerous struggle.