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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). — Wyndham Lewis

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease. — Wyndham Lewis

Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason? — John Wyndham

Darling, whose book is this to be?"
"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"
"I see
rather like my life since I met you?"
"Yes darling — John Wyndham

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. — John Wyndham

My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me. — John Wyndham

Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis

The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. — Wyndham Lewis

Something wonderful may happen today. You don't want to be asleep when it does! — Lee Wyndham

Laughter is the climax in the tragedy of seeing, hearing and smelling self-consciously. — Wyndham Lewis

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. — John Wyndham

Dying for an idea,' again, sounds well enough, but why not let the idea die instead of you? — Wyndham Lewis

Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable. — John Wyndham

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. — John Wyndham

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

All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash. — John Wyndham

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

We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words. — John Wyndham

All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. — John Wyndham

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire. — Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away. — Wyndham Lewis

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. — John Wyndham

Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough. — John Wyndham

You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise. — John Wyndham

The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant. — Wyndham Lewis

Instead of the vast organization to exploit the weakness of the Many, should we not possess one for the exploitation of the intelligence of the Few? — Wyndham Lewis

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. — John Wyndham

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. — John Wyndham

Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up. — Wyndham Lewis

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. — John Wyndham

Spain is an overflow of sombreness ... a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier. — Wyndham Lewis

A sort of botanical glory-hole — John Wyndham

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising
themselves. — Wyndham Lewis

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business. — John Wyndham

The ideal of perfect Success is an ideal belonging to the same sort of individual as the inventor of Equal Rights of man and Perfectibility. — Wyndham Lewis

Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to. — John Wyndham

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. — Wyndham Lewis

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island? — Wyndham Lewis

every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult. — John Wyndham

Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court. — Sophie Thompson

The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital — John Wyndham

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise. — John Wyndham

Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph. — Wyndham Lewis

Think & Grow Finance is a Melbourne based mortgage broking business. It provides you all type of financial help at any time. — Parveen Kumar

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that. — John Wyndham

In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy — John Wyndham

Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding ... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform. — Wyndham Lewis

I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass. — Wyndham Lewis

Where there is abundance you can afford waste. — Wyndham Lewis

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly. — Wyndham Lewis

... after all, what is a planet but an island in space? — John Wyndham

Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour — John Wyndham

No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. — Wyndham Lewis

Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. — John Wyndham

Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume. — Wyndham Lewis

You're Beau Wyndham! Well, I'll be damned!'
'The prospect,' said Sir Richard, bored, 'leaves me unmoved — Georgette Heyer

Art is the expression of an enormous preference. — Wyndham Lewis

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation. — John Wyndham

But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another. — John Wyndham

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten — John Wyndham

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. — John Wyndham

"Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that."
"Exactly," she agreed. — John Wyndham

An artist should be as impartial as God. — Wyndham Lewis

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was. — John Wyndham

People are so overwhelmed with the prestige of their instruments that they consider their personal judgement of hardly any account. — Wyndham Lewis

Life is art's rival and vice versa. — Wyndham Lewis

Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for — John Wyndham

Revolutionary politics, revolutionary art, and oh, the revolutionary mind, is the dullest thing on earth ... What a stupid word! What a stale fuss! — Wyndham Lewis

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? — John Wyndham

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ... — John Wyndham

I would do terrible things for the ones I love, Miss Wyndham. — Tarun Shanker

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them. — John Wyndham

The ideas of a time are like the clothes of a season: they are as arbitrary, as much imposed by some superior will which is seldom explicit. — Wyndham Lewis

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion. — Wyndham Lewis

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias. — Wyndham Lewis

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine. — Wyndham Lewis

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled ... — John Wyndham

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. — John Wyndham

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said. — John Wyndham

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. — John Wyndham