There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.
– Hugh Leonard
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
– Hugh Leonard
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
– Hugh Leonard
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
– Hugh Leonard
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.