Kingsmill Quotes

#1. Too often the mentally ill are marginalized as people who just can't pull up their socks. If only it were that simple.

Suzanne F. Kingsmill

#2. During the investigation evidence of the vulnerability of women in the modelling profession was startling and models are at high risk of eating disorders.

Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill

#3. Only the impossible can do the impossible.

Anne Rice

#4. 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

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

Hugh Kingsmill

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#7. The Christian religion alone contemplates the conjugal union in the order of nature; it is the only religion which presents woman to man as a companion; every other abandons her to him as a slave. To religion alone do European women owe their liberty.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#9. First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

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

Hugh Kingsmill

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#12. My life might have been so different, had I not been known as the girl whose grandmother exploded.

Helen Grant

#13. Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep

Pope Francis

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

Hugh Kingsmill

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#16. Where is privacy, if not in the mind?

Annie Dillard

#17. Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one was content, and rightly so. Educating all kids to high levels was hard, and every country - every one - still had work to do.

Amanda Ripley

#18. 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

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#20. If you blink enough and relax a whole new world is opened to you.

Kris Harte

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#22. In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.

Christopher West

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

Hugh Kingsmill

#24. 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

#25. Passionate love is a quenchless thirst ...

Khalil Gibran

#26. I was basically the Holden Caulfield of adult dating.

Camille Perri

#27. 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