John Millington Synge - The Playboy of the Western World (1907)

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Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen... I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.

John Millington Synge

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

John Millington Synge

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge

May I meet him with one tooth and it aching, and one eye to be seeing seven and seventy divils in the twists of the road, and one old timber leg on him to limp into the scalding grave. There he is now crossing the strands, and that the Lord God would send a high wave to wash him from the world.

John Millington Synge