37 Quotes by Irving Layton

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.