Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Fairlie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist Henry Fairlie.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Henry Jones Fairlie was a British political journalist and social critic, known for popularizing the term "the Establishment", an analysis of how "all the right people" came to run Britain largely through social connections. He spent 36 years as a prominent freelance writer on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing in The Spectator, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, and many other papers and magazines. He was also the author of five books, most notably The Kennedy Promise, an early revisionist critique of the US presidency of John F. Kennedy.

British - Journalist | January 13, 1924 - February 25, 1990

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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

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

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

Henry Fairlie

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

We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.

Henry Fairlie

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

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

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

Henry Fairlie

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Fairlie

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