Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be,… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
“I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.” — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might… — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The? — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones. — Keith Waterhouse Copy Share Image
