All Margaret Drabble Quotes
- I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore. Admire
- Poverty, therefore, was comparative. One measured it by a sliding scale. One was always poor, in terms of those who were richer. Always Poor
- The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom. Bear
- Because if one has an image, however dim and romantic, of a journey's end, one may, in the end, surely reach it, after no matter… Abandoned
- There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like enough to satisfy… Admirer
- My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American… Acid
- And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society… Any
- Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations. Ability
- Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts. Conform
- A man's greatest fear from a woman is that she will laugh at him; a woman's fear is that a man will kill her. Fear
- Nothing fails like failure Failing
- Why can't people be both flexible and efficient? Both
- Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die… Age
- I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the… Alive
- Nothing succeeds, they say, like success. And certainly nothing fails like failure. Certainly Nothing
- I actually remember feeling delight, at two o'clock in the morning, when the baby woke for his feed, because I so longed to have another… Actually Remember
- I have switched on this modern laptop machine. And I have told myself that I must resist the temptation to start playing solitaire upon it. Laptop
- Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place. Approved
- When nothing is sure, everything is possible. Charity
- What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell… Annoying
- There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a… Any
- Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die... Abandoned
- I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try. Addict
- Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it. Compensates
- The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. Compensates