Hugh Quotes

Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.

Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity

So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

There is no easy in the world neither hard everything is the same in a way.

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

I always say beauty is only sin deep.

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect.

And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.

Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

A relative of mine ... spends his time producing improved breeds of sheep and pigs and chickens. So patronising and irritating to teh Almighty, I should think.

Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

Every reformation must have its victims. You can’t expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal’s return.

Mother, may I go and maffick, Tear around and hinder traffic?

The censorious said she slept in a hammock and understood Yeats's poems, but her family denied both stories.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.

Sophie Chattel-Monkheim was a Socialist by conviction and a Chattel-Monkheim by marriage.

A beautifully constructed borshch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought.

The man is a common murderer. A common murderer, possible, but a very uncommon cook.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.

Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions.

Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

As the primary end of History is to record truth, impartiality, fidelity and accuracy are the fundamental qualities of an Historian.

Homosexuality has been around since humanity began and different societies at different times have reacted in a different manner.

I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

Young people are so often dissed by the media.

I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

Am I athletic? In my dreams.

I have an excellent internal compass.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

Mine was the role of the oilcan in making the machinery clunk around.

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

You can't have a motion without a debate.

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.