22 Quotes by Hugh Kingsmill

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

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

But bacon's not the only thing / That's cured by hanging from a string.

What still alive at twenty-two. / A clean, upstanding chap like you! / Sure, if your throat is hard to slit, / Slit your girl's and swing for it.

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.

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

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

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.

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