Contentment Quote by Wendy Cope

The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

— Wendy Cope

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

— Wendy Cope

On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly…

— Wendy Cope

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

— Wendy Cope

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the…

— Wendy Cope

“A Green Song (to sing at the bottle-bank) One green bottle, Drop it in the bank. Ten green bottles, What a lot we drank.…

— Wendy Cope

I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

— Wendy Cope

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to…

— Wendy Cope

I like a quiet life.

— Wendy Cope

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

— Wendy Cope

Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three…

— Wendy Cope

“Everybody in this room is bored. The poems drag, the voice and gestures irk. He can't be interrupted or ignored. Poor fools, we came…

— Wendy Cope