Quotes from John Millington Synge

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.

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

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

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

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

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.