Hugh Kingsmill Quotes

#1. Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of Change has blown. My own vote goes to Hugh Kingsmill as leader of this opposition.

Hugh Kingsmill

#2. Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Hugh Kingsmill

#3. We have caller ID. We know who you are. If we wanted to talk to you, we would have picked up, but obviously we didn't. If you have anything at all that's important to say, you'll have to say it on the machine.

Don Bruns

#4. The voice is nothing but beaten air.

Seneca The Younger

#5. In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Robert Menzies

#6. Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude.

Hugh Kingsmill

#7. To find eternal peace, love everyone as if they are your beloved children.

Debasish Mridha

#8. A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Hugh Kingsmill

#9. I think that maybe I do want to learn to play"
... "Oh, I think you're quite adept at playing already, Tesoro."
"No." She giggled. "An instrument."
"I'm allowing that joke to pass. Too obvious.

Elizabeth Hunter

#10. A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Hugh Kingsmill

#11. Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

Hugh Kingsmill

#12. It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Hugh Kingsmill

#13. You How, may I ask, did you get so you, you beautiful true-to-you doer? I've met many today but can honestly say that I've never met anyone you-er.

Bo Burnham

#14. Obedience and submission requires faith

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

John Wooden

#16. The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.

Hugh Kingsmill

#17. People who do not have a price tag attached to them are priceless.

Amit Abraham

#18. Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Hugh Kingsmill

#19. Friends are God's apology for relations.

Hugh Kingsmill

#20. Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

Hugh Kingsmill

#21. However, with a gut full of heroin, it's hard to be an optimist.

S.A. Tawks

#22. If you're going to be called a musicianship, you have to be able to play.

Warryn Campbell

#23. Never 'it,' never 'it,' " Marya chided. "None of God's creatures is an 'it,' even if they're not a boy or a girl or a mammal or a pretty bird. Call them 'he' or she' and be a little wrong, but never take away their individuality like that.

Mira Grant

#24. Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hugh Kingsmill

#25. Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.

Hugh Kingsmill

#26. The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from fear or in automatic obedience to a formula, is to weaken the springs of life, and to diminish the soul's resistance to this world.

Hugh Kingsmill

#27. This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.

Joel Best

#28. Nothing's impossible. It's what you decide your limits are.

Lori-Ann Muenzer