Hugh Kingsmill
Hugh Kingsmill
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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth21 November 1889
cured hanging
But bacon's not the only thing / That's cured by hanging from a string.
income mankind difficult
It is difficult to love mankind unless one has a reasonable private income, and when one has a reasonable private income one has better things to do than loving mankind.
egotism detached observers
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer.
dream men self
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
strings
Bacon's not the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string.
libertarian obscure thinker
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.