"But I'm English. We don't do uplifting." — Tony Judt

"But I'm English. We don't do uplifting."

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59 Quotes by Tony Judt

Tony Judt has 59 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a…
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine…
Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may…
The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its…
Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
Israel today is bad for the Jews,
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young…

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Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense. — Margaret Atwood
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. — Walter Bagehot
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time… — Christian Bale
I look at myself, and I see a Spanish person who's trying to be understood by an English-speaking audience and… — Javier Bardem
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old… — Drew Barrymore
I was crossing the English Channel with a carbon-fiber wing on my back. — Felix Baumgartner
I do love cricket - it's so very English. — Sarah Bernhardt
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes. — Thomas Beecham
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley

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