51 Quotes by Edmund Wilson

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,’ in the long run remakes the world.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

They [the English] have a special word, "civil," for what is elsewhere merely ordinary politeness.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

Education, the last hope of the liberal in all periods.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.