Stephen Spender Quote

I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that 'all geniuses are devoid of humour'.


speech in a debate at the Cambridge Union, January 1938


I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that 'all geniuses are devoid of humour'.

I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that 'all geniuses are devoid of humour'.

I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that 'all geniuses are devoid of humour'.

I fear I cannot make an amusing speech. I have just been reading a book which says that 'all geniuses are devoid of humour'.