Malcolm Bradbury
Malcolm Bradbury
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury CBEwas an English author and academic...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 September 1932
Malcolm Bradbury quotes about
book way stealing
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.
children school home
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
reading sleep wife
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.
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
christian innocence sin
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly.
discovery interesting world
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
good-friend visits-you lectures
Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.
world way defining
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
hate father men
English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.
sociology can-do
With sociology one can do anything and call it work