Larkin Quotes

14 quotes by 10 authors

It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell
Look at me, man, look at me and tell me I don't know what I'm about. I'm Conor Larkin. I'm an Irishman and I've had… — Leon Uris
There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt me! Ronan! Kilty!… — Leon Uris
Deluded liberal that I am, I persist in thinking that those with a streak of sexual unorthodoxy ought to be more tolerant of their fellows… — Alan Bennett
Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now! — Alan Bennett
I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting… — Damien Hirst
The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged. — Robert Morgan
I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me. — Zadie Smith
Since it was there, Larkin got another bowl, spooned up stew for himself. â€œHe fights with us. Weâ€™re an army.â€ â€œAn army? Talk about delusions… — Nora Roberts
Now thatâ€™s true poetic irony. I rush into battle to defend the fair name of Rose Larkin, and what does she do but fetch Robert… — Franny Billingsley
Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.'' Philip Larkin — Philip Larkin
I like Philip Larkin an awful lot; I really like his view on life, and I really connect to it. — Domhnall Gleeson
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet. — Robert Morgan

Who Wrote These Larkin Quotes

10 authors contributed a total of 14 Larkin Quotes as follows: