There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Quote by Aldous Huxley

Topics: Talent Quotes

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid...

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate,...

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate,...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give...

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened...

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel...

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the...

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet

Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much...

I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth only in the bodies integrity; much...