Norman Lindsay Quotes

#1. The best love affairs are those we never had.

Norman Lindsay

#2. Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

Norman Lindsay

#3. A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

Norman Lindsay

#4. Apologies are totally inadequate,' shouted Uncle Wattleberry. 'Nothing short of felling you to the earth with an umbrella could possibly atone for the outrage. You are a danger to the whisker-growing public. You have knocked my hat off, pulled my whiskers, and tried to remove my nose.

Norman Lindsay

#5. Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Norman Lindsay

#6. 'You ain't got any tobacco,' he said scornfully to Bunyip Bluegum. 'I can see that at a glance. You're one of the non smoking sort, all fur and feathers.'

Norman Lindsay