107 Quotes by Wyndham Lewis

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards – material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

To be a satirist, at all events. The venom of Pope is what is needed. The sense of delight – the expansion and the compassion of Shakespeare is no good at all for that. He is a bad comic.

Men were only made into ‘men’ with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally ‘a man’ any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.

A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere.

Then down came the lid – the day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo. World-politics stepped in, and a war was started which has not ended yet: a “war to end war.” But it merely ended art. It did not end war.

There is nothing contemptible about an intoxicated man – if it is nothing more than a bookful of words or a roomful of notes that he has got drunk on.

It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.

As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.