If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. — Malcolm Bradbury Commandments Copy Share Image
If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs. — Malcolm Bradbury Given Copy Share Image
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs. — Malcolm Bradbury Given Copy Share Image
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury Code Copy Share Image
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. — Malcolm Bradbury Form Copy Share Image
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world. — Malcolm Bradbury Code Copy Share Image
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. — Malcolm Bradbury Broken Copy Share Image
“This education we're giving them is the tool of destruction, of course; that's what makes it so painful. We're showing them how… — Malcolm Bradbury Education Copy Share Image
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — Malcolm Bradbury Christianity Copy Share Image
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home… — Malcolm Bradbury Britons Copy Share Image
“This was the sort of thing that happened to persons of this sort, sensitives, who fought the world and always, in the… — Malcolm Bradbury Defeat Copy Share Image
“After all, the function of a vacation is regenerative, not luxurious. It's to restore our equipment so that we can live our… — Malcolm Bradbury Restore Copy Share Image
“Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries… — Malcolm Bradbury Marriage Copy Share Image
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another… — Malcolm Bradbury Creativity Copy Share Image
“There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only… — Malcolm Bradbury Tourist Comes Copy Share Image
“If Caribbean writers have one single unifying theme, it is a strong sense of place, and of home. There is also -… — Malcolm Bradbury Caribbean Copy Share Image
“..it lay in the true function of the university to promote that interplay of view, that discussion and dispute, that cumulative narrowing… — Malcolm Bradbury Education Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Absurdity Copy Share Image
“The trouble with me is, Treece thought, that I'm a liberal humanist who believes in original sin. I think of man as… — Malcolm Bradbury Man Copy Share Image
“With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is… — Malcolm Bradbury Answers Copy Share Image
“There's always something or someone to do.''But don't you ever find it too much work, Howard?' asks Flora, 'All this dressing and… — Malcolm Bradbury Effort Copy Share Image
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting… — Malcolm Bradbury Another way Copy Share Image
“One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.” — Malcolm Bradbury Feminism Copy Share Image
“Well, aren't you just saying it's better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?” — Malcolm Bradbury Contentment Copy Share Image
“One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent… — Malcolm Bradbury Friendship Copy Share Image
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to… — Malcolm Bradbury American history Copy Share Image
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking… — Malcolm Bradbury Ability Copy Share Image
“Treece quite seriously divided the world into writers, who led life as a conscious effort, and people, and people who didn't; sometimes… — Malcolm Bradbury Divided Copy Share Image
“Oh, it must be wonderful to be educated. What does it feel like?' 'It's like having an operation,' said Treece. 'You don't… — Malcolm Bradbury British-literature Copy Share Image
“You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand… — Malcolm Bradbury Defining Copy Share Image
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. — Malcolm Bradbury Coping Copy Share Image
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. — Malcolm Bradbury English Copy Share Image
“Maybe one reason so many people have so many problems is that there are so many other people with so many solutions."… — Malcolm Bradbury Love Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a… — Malcolm Bradbury Book Copy Share Image
“Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to… — Malcolm Bradbury Eating-people-is-wrong Copy Share Image
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good… — Malcolm Bradbury Friendship Copy Share Image