It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
Laurence HousmanA saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
Laurence HousmanMy failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence HousmanProsecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.
Laurence Housman