Quotes by Synge, J. M.

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or >>

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of wri >>

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one wo >>

Quotations about Sons

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, becau >>

How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdo >>

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling proje >>

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.

Synge, J. M.