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The Playboy of the Western World QUOTES

The Playboy of the Western World QUOTES

1 " Go on now and I’ll see you from this day stewing my oatmeal and washing my spuds, for I’m master of all fights from now. "

― J.M. Synge , The Playboy of the Western World

2 " If the mitred bishops seen you that time, they'd be the like of the holy prophets, I'm thinking, do be straining the bars of Paradise to lay eyes on the Lady Helen of Troy, and she abroad, pacing back and forward, with a nosegay in her golden shawl. "

― J.M. Synge , The Playboy of the Western World

3 " I'll say, a strange man is a marvel, with his mighty talk; but what's a squabble in your back yard, and the blow of a loy, have taught me that there's a great gap between a gallous story and a dirty deed. "

― J.M. Synge , The Playboy of the Western World

4 " Isn't there the light of seven heavens in your heart alone, the way you'll be an angel's lamp to me from this out, and I abroad in the darkness, spearing salmons in the Owen, or the Carrowmore? "

― J.M. Synge , The Playboy of the Western World

5 " May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy devils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. "

― J.M. Synge , The Playboy of the Western World