Irving Layton Quotes

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• Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
• Idealist: a cynic in the making.
• When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
• Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
• I have stopped being a misanthrope.
• Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
• Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
• By walking, I found out where I was going.
• My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
• God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
• 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…
• I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats
• We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love
• A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
• In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
• It amazes me that organs thatpiss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

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