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Henry Lawson Quotes

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Henry Lawson
Party, Drinking, Beer

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Henry Lawson
Wisdom, Travel, Home
Henry Lawson, Walter Stone (1973). “Poems of Henry Lawson”, Sydney : Ure Smith

In a land where sport is sacred, Where the labourer is God, You must pander to the people, Make a hero of a clod.

Henry Lawson
Sports, Hero, Land
Henry Lawson (1967). “Collected Verse: 1885-1900”

It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake.

Henry Lawson
Wisdom, Country, Children
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us.

Henry Lawson
Wisdom, Eye, Independence
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

It is the same with revolution; so long as the proper spirit is spreading amongst our young men, we are satisfied that it spreads without bombast or parade.

Henry Lawson
Men, Long, Revolution
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Henry Lawson
Wisdom, Punishment, Australia

Who says Australia offers not a home for every poor Englishman, or any other countryman that finds his way to our shores? And what sort of thanks do we get for it?

Henry Lawson
Home, Australia, Way
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

The old shepherd had died, or got drunk, or got rats, or got the sack, or a legacy, or got sane, or chucked it, or got lost, or found, or a wife, or had cut his throat, or hanged himself, or got into Parliament or the peerage anyway, anything had happened to him that can happen to an old shepherd or any other man in the bush, and he wasn't there.

Henry Lawson
Cutting, Men, Drunk
Henry Lawson (1984). “A Fantasy of Man: Henry Lawson Complete Works, 1901-1922”

On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Henry Lawson
Jealousy, Land, Australia
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

The children are taught more of the meanest state in Europe than of the country they are born and bred in, despite the singularity of its characteristics, the interest of its history, the rapidity of its advance, and the stupendous promise of its future.

Henry Lawson
Country, Children, Europe
Henry Lawson, Colin Arthur Roderick (1972). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical and other writings, 1887-1922”, Angus & Robertson

It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

Henry Lawson
Anniversary, Children, School
Henry Lawson (1984). “A Camp-fire Yarn: Henry Lawson Complete Works 1885-1900”

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