Percy Wynham Lewis Quotes


As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet. Percy Wynham Lewis Women 104
All orthodox opinion -- that is, today, revolutionary opinion either of the pure or the impure variety -- is anti-man. Percy Wynham Lewis Religion 78
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. Percy Wynham Lewis Youth 73
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. Percy Wynham Lewis Principles 72
A sort of war of revenge on the intellect is what, for some reason, thrives in the contemporary social atmosphere. Percy Wynham Lewis Intelligence 72
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. Percy Wynham Lewis Art 71
So-called austerity, the stoic injunction, is the path towards universal destruction. It is the old, the fatal, competitive path. Pull in your belt is a slogan closely related to gird up your loins, or the guns-butter metaphor. Percy Wynham Lewis Economics 62
Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. Percy Wynham Lewis Revolution 58
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact. Percy Wynham Lewis Advertising 56
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. Percy Wynham Lewis Machines 56
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. Percy Wynham Lewis America 55
No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion. Percy Wynham Lewis America 50
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. Percy Wynham Lewis Laziness 50
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. They are utilitarian and political, the instruments of smooth-running government. Percy Wynham Lewis Ideas 43
It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite. Percy Wynham Lewis Manners 37

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