--- title: "4 Lol Quotes By Alan Bradley" description: "4 Lol quotes by Alan Bradley. Plus more from Alan Bradley and more Lol sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/alan-bradley-1571_flavia_i-had-to-make-water-i-said-it-was-the-cl_1150959.png" --- > [“I had to make water ” I said. It was the classic female excuse and no male in recorded history had ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/i-had-to-make-water-i-said-it-was-the-classic-female-excuse-and-no/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/alan-bradley-1571_flavia_i-had-to-make-water-i-said-it-was-the-cl_1150959.png) > [“I remembered Father remarking once that if rudeness was not attributable to ignorance it could be taken as a sure sign that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/i-remembered-father-remarking-once-that-if-rudeness-was-not/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/770/alan-bradley-1571_aristocracy_i-remembered-father-remarking-once-that_1437124.png) > [“I was gazing at a cup of cocoa on my night table. As I focused on the thick brown skin that had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/i-was-gazing-at-a-cup-of-cocoa-on-my-night-table-as-i-focused-on-the/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/alan-bradley-1571_brown-skin_i-was-gazing-at-a-cup-of-cocoa-on-my-nig_1507780.jpg) > [“I remembered that Johnson had declared portrait painting to be an improper employment for a woman. “Public practice of any art and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/i-remembered-that-johnson-had-declared-portrait-painting-to-be-an/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3f5/alan-bradley-1571_dr-johnson_i-remembered-that-johnson-had-declared-p_1593243.jpg) ## Other authors on Lol ## More by Alan Bradley > [“…it is a well-known fact that more than two men shut up together in an enclosed space for more than an hour constitute a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/it-is-a-well-known-fact-that-more-than-two-men-shut-up-together-in-an/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“You see, Flavia, silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/you-see-flavia-silence-is-sometimes-the-most-costly-of-commodities/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“If there is a thing I truly despise, it is being addressed as "dearie." When I write my magnum opus, A Treatise Upon All…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/if-there-is-a-thing-i-truly-despise-it-is-being-addressed-as-dearie/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“The sweater didn't fit me, of course. Even with the sleeves rolled up I looked like a baggy monkey picking bananas. But to my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/the-sweater-didn-t-fit-me-of-course-even-with-the-sleeves-rolled-up-i/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be--Porcelain and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/if-there-is-anything-more-delicious-than-a-sausage-roasted-over-an/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“No point in wasting time with false vanity when you possess the real thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/no-point-in-wasting-time-with-false-vanity-when-you-possess-the-real/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“Die, witch," I managed, making a cross of my forefingers.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/die-witch-i-managed-making-a-cross-of-my-forefingers/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“There was no way out; not, at least, in this direction. I was like a hamster that had climbed to the top of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/there-was-no-way-out-not-at-least-in-this-direction-i-was-like-a/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/i-am-often-thought-of-as-being-remarkably-bright-and-yet-my-brains/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“To my mind, if Nature had wanted us to have bright red fingertips, She would have caused us to be born with our blood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/to-my-mind-if-nature-had-wanted-us-to-have-bright-red-fingertips-she/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“Had I been too cruel to that horror, Miss Mountjoy? Too vindictive? Wasn't she, after all, just a harmless and lonely old spinster? Would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/had-i-been-too-cruel-to-that-horror-miss-mountjoy-too-vindictive-wasn/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“This was an interesting thought; it had never occurred to me that one's name could be a compass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/this-was-an-interesting-thought-it-had-never-occurred-to-me-that-one/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“While you've been gadding about the countryside, we've held a meeting, and we've all of us decided that you must go.' In short, we've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/while-you-ve-been-gadding-about-the-countryside-we-ve-held-a-meeting/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“For all practical purposes, Feely's enthusiasms stopped where her skin ended.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/for-all-practical-purposes-feely-s-enthusiasms-stopped-where-her-skin/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) > [“Then I remembered that silence can sometimes do more damage than words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-bradley/then-i-remembered-that-silence-can-sometimes-do-more-damage-than-words/) [Alan Bradley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-bradley/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/lol/alan-bradley/#itemlist", "name": "4 Lol Quotes By Alan Bradley", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I had to make water ” I said. 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