A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development. — Hugh Kingsmill Concern Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Charlatans Copy Share Image
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string. — Hugh Kingsmill Strings Copy Share Image
The reward of renunciation is some good greater than the thing renounced. To renounce with no vision of such a good, from… — Hugh Kingsmill Diminish Copy Share Image
Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion,… — Hugh Kingsmill Crucifixion Copy Share Image
Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived. — Hugh Kingsmill Ideas Copy Share Image
“Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.” — Hugh Kingsmill Detached Copy Share Image
The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy. — Hugh Kingsmill Accuracy Copy Share Image
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive. — Hugh Kingsmill Alive Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Action Copy Share Image
There are dons who care for the intellect and the imagination, and there are priests who care for the spirit; but broadly… — Hugh Kingsmill Care Copy Share Image
Behind the big names of twentieth-century literature there stands a shadow cabinet of writers waiting to take over once the Wind of… — Hugh Kingsmill Behinds Copy Share Image
Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues. — Hugh Kingsmill Character Copy Share Image
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one… — Hugh Kingsmill Better things Copy Share Image
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross. — Hugh Kingsmill Carrie Copy Share Image