Irving Layton

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. ↗

— Irving Layton

#halo #self-esteem

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you. ↗

— Irving Layton

#clever #convince #inferiors #one thing #only

Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canadians #consider #dante #down #hell

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

#best #genius #i #i am #keats

Idealist: a cynic in the making. ↗

— Irving Layton

#idealist #making

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination. ↗

— Irving Layton

#canada #elliott #last #leader #pierre

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. ↗

— Irving Layton

#loved #much #neighbor #want #wants

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love. ↗

— Irving Layton

#deposit #greater #love #ourselves #soul