‘A Dumb Person’s Idea of a Smart Person’: Whose Line Is It?
Elizabeth Bowen writing about Aldous Huxley in the Spectator, December 11, 1936:
“Mr. Huxley has been the alarming young man for a long time, a sort of perpetual clever nephew who can be relied on to flutter the lunch-party … He is at once the truly clever person and the stupid person’s idea of the clever person.”