Henry Fairlie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Lust #Abuse #Survival
The foundation of humility is truth. The humble man sees himself as he is. If his depreciation of himself were untrue,... it wouldnot be praiseworthy, and would be a form of hypocrisy, which is one of the evils of Pride. The man who is falsely humble, we know from our own experience, is one who is falsely proud.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Humble #Humility #Pride
We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Ignorance #Thinking
The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Believe #Greatness #Destiny
The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Play #Shopping #Luxury
But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude. Like all the sins, it also makes us solitary. It is self-abdication at the very core of one's own being, a surrender of our need and ability to give and receive. Lust does not come with open hands, certainly not with an open heart. It comes only with open legs.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Morning #Heart #Doors
Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.
-- Henry Fairlie

#Bed #Looks #Breakfast
There is a middlebrow snobbery in America that praises everything on public television and disdains everything on the commercial networks as a blight.
-- Henry Fairlie

#America #Television #Praise

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
What was the point in satin and lace if it didn't make a man struggle to speak?
Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.
He ran his finger along my jawline and down my neck. "The wait will be fun, but it's not going to be easy."
All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.
Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.
Romanticism is the abuse of adjectives
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
Two different things. Work is survival, and love sustains you. You have work anytime. But love? Not always.

Henry Fairlie famous quotes

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