Quotes by Irving Layton

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
– Irving Layton
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
– Irving Layton
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
– Irving Layton
If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
– Irving Layton
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
– Irving Layton
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
– Irving Layton
Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.
– Irving Layton
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
– Irving Layton
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
– Irving Layton