Quotes from Hugh Kingsmill

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.

It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.

Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.