Kingsley Martin Quotes

• The Monarchy...is the secret well from which the flourishing institution of British Snobbery draws its nourishment

  Kingsley Martin

  Secret, Flourishing, Institutions

  "The Crown and the Establishment". Book by Kingsley Martin, London, p. 175,

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• Una enfermedad de la mente, [cuyo] germen es la idea de que uno puede aprender lo que es valioso, o de alguna manera adquirir la virtud, por el proceso de ser mostrado cosas.

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  Ideas, Mind, May

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• I boast of being the only man in London who has been bombed off a lavatory seat while reading Jane Austen. She went into the bath; I went through the door.

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  Guerra, Lectura, Hombres

  Kingsley Martin (1960). “Critic's London diary: from the New statesman, 1931-1956”

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• One of the remarks made by farmers at their public discussion of these problems suggest that they are rapidly ceasing to think of animals as sentient beings at all. If you handle vast numbers of creatures which are in any case going to die soon, it is, I suppose, easy to get into a state of mind in which they seem to be merely machines.

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  Animal, Thinking, Numbers

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