Wyndham Lewis Quotes & Sayings
11 most famous Wyndham Lewis quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have for him.
“It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.”
“Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.”
“If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to do, and could, in complete peace and suitably honored, pursue their trade without further trouble.”
“I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.”
“As a result of the feminist revolution, 'feminine' becomes an abusive epithet.”
“In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.”
“Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.”
“Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.”
“A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.”
“Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.”
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