Henry Lawson quotes

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. (Henry Lawson)
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world. View quote
Henry Lawson
When the school children of Australia are told more truths about their own country, and fewer lies about the virtues of Royalty, the day will be near when we can place our own national flag in one of the proudest places among the ensigns of the world. View quote
Henry Lawson
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
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? View quote
Henry Lawson
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people. (Henry Lawson)
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. View quote
Henry Lawson
It is quite time that our children were taught a little more about their country, for shame's sake. View quote
Henry Lawson
If Federation - whether Imperial or of the world - should ever appear in a better light than at present there will be plenty of time to consider it. But for the present, let our colonies try to cultivate a still more brotherly feeling for each other, and the day will come when the sons of all the colonies can clasp hands and say truly, "We are Australians - we know no other land!”. View quote
Henry Lawson