A. E. Housman Quote

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.


From a list of insults drafted by A E Housman, and posthumously published in Laurence Housman's A. E. H. (1937) pp. 89-90. The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.


Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.