Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.

[A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.

"Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself."

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

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 you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.