Hugh Kingsmill Quotes

Hugh Kingsmill Lunn , who dropped his last name for professional purposes, was a versatile British writer and journalist. Writers Arnold Lunn and Brian Lunn were his brothers. Wikipedia  

✵ 21. November 1889 – 15. May 1949
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Famous Hugh Kingsmill Quotes

“What, still alive at twenty-two,
A clean upstanding chap like you?”

"Two Poems, After A. E. Housman", no. 1, line 1 (1933)
The opening of a Housman parody which the subject himself called "The best I have seen, and indeed the only good one." (Laurence Housman My Brother, A. E. Housman (1938) p. 180)

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

"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

Hugh Kingsmill Quotes

“The public mind [is] a cloudy region where only the simplest shapes are discerned with any accuracy.”

"William Gerhardi", p. 131
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

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

"Rudyard Kipling", p. 31
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

“Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.”

"Biography and Criticism", p. 160
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

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

"Hamlet Borgianized", p. 156
The Progress of a Biographer (1949)

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