Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable,… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall… — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete. — Frederic Raphael Copy Share Image
