Irving Layton Quotes

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

- Irving Layton

Leader, Political Leader, Worthy

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

- Irving Layton

Will, Survive, Wordsworth, Keats

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

- Irving Layton

Making, Cynic, Idealist

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

Right, United States, Scheme, Canadians

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

- Irving Layton

Loved, Want, Wants, Envied

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

- Irving Layton

Argue, One Thing, Them, Inferiors

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

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Self-Esteem, Conscience, Halo

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

- Irving Layton

Love, Soul, Another, Deposit

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