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Wyndham Lewis quotes: 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).

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: Contradict yourself. In order to live, you must remain broken up.

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

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

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

Wyndham Lewis quotes: The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praisingthemselves.

The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising
themselves.

Wyndham Lewis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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?

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 quotes: Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

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

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

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

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

Laughter is the Wild Body's song of triumph.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wyndham Lewis quotes: Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

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

Laughter is the representative of Tragedy, when Tragedy is away.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wyndham Lewis quotes: Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Art is the expression of an enormous preference.

Wyndham Lewis quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Wyndham Lewis quotes: Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Where there is abundance you can afford waste.

Wyndham Lewis quotes: 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.

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

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

Wyndham Lewis quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

Revolution has become a sort of violent and hollow routine.

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

Happiness is the chief material also in the construction of Utopias.

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

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

Wyndham Lewis quotes: An artist should be as impartial as God.

An artist should be as impartial as God.

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

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 quotes: Life is art's rival and vice versa.

Life is art's rival and vice versa.

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

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