Irving Layton Famous Quotes



"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party."

"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)"

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

"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."

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


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The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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Living hell is the best revenge.
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