Malcolm Bradbury Quotes
- If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
- I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
- Life is a crisis - so what!
- Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
- Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
- With sociology one can do anything and call it work
- But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme…
- Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
- You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
- To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms;…
- I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.
- If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.
- The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
- English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything…
- My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
- Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone…
- Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow…
- Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what…
- Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
- I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.