Ifs Quotes by Frederic Raphael

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

— Frederic Raphael

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

— Frederic Raphael

Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will…

— Frederic Raphael

Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

— Frederic Raphael

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

— Frederic Raphael

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

— Frederic Raphael

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

— Frederic Raphael

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

— Frederic Raphael

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable,…

— Frederic Raphael

The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is…

— Frederic Raphael

At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

— Frederic Raphael

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

— Frederic Raphael