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> [“In England, art was much less likely to be mentioned in polite society than sexual perversions or methods of torture.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/in-england-art-was-much-less-likely-to-be-mentioned-in-polite-society/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

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## Other authors on Polite Society

## More by Edward St. Aubyn

> [“If you were madly in love, you’d want me to win,’ said Katherine. “‘I’m not sure that’s true,’ said Sam. ‘I think love is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/if-you-were-madly-in-love-you-d-want-me-to-win-said-katherine-i-m-not/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“Was he, after all, really a bad man doing a brilliant impersonation of an idiot? It was hard to tell. The connections between stupidity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/was-he-after-all-really-a-bad-man-doing-a-brilliant-impersonation-of/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/if-anything-should-take-place-behind-closed-doors-it-was-cruelty-and/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“But then neither revenge nor forgiveness change what happened. They’re sideshows, of which forgiveness is the less attractive because it represents a collaboration with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/but-then-neither-revenge-nor-forgiveness-change-what-happened-they-re/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“Old enough to remember the arrival of 'Have a nice day', Patrick could only look with alarm on the hyperinflation of 'Have a great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/old-enough-to-remember-the-arrival-of-have-a-nice-day-patrick-could/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/people-never-remember-happiness-with-the-care-that-they-lavish-on/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn’t know how she’d cope without Buckingham…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/the-queen-was-saying-only-the-other-day-that-london-property-prices/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“Nobody ever died of a feeling, he would say to himself, not believing a word of it, as he sweated his way through the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/nobody-ever-died-of-a-feeling-he-would-say-to-himself-not-believing-a/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“An editor sleeping with his writer was not as bad as a psychoanalyst sleeping with his patient, or even a professor sleeping with an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/an-editor-sleeping-with-his-writer-was-not-as-bad-as-a-psychoanalyst/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/the-waiting-room-atmosphere-in-which-death-was-the-delayed-train/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“An image flashed across her mind of two rams flinging their heads against each other on a rocky mountainside. What did the girl rams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/an-image-flashed-across-her-mind-of-two-rams-flinging-their-heads/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the real thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/but-that-after-all-was-the-point-of-romantic-folly-if-it-hadn-t-all/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/try-as-one-might-to-live-on-the-edge-thought-patrick-getting-into-the/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“He had only just made the Elysian deadline; hanging onto the typescript until the last moment in case there was something still to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/he-had-only-just-made-the-elysian-deadline-hanging-onto-the/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

> [“The mess that's emerging...at least reflects the truth of my experience, the fact that every contemplation is interrupted, and that every interruption becomes further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-st-aubyn/the-mess-that-s-emerging-at-least-reflects-the-truth-of-my-experience/)

[Edward St. Aubyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-st-aubyn/)

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