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
english-novelist rigid
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
sex real struggle
The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.
opposites groups way
To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.
home thinking sheep
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
distraction scholarship
Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship
fate actions-have-consequences people
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
thinking people bed
Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.
problem life-is problem-solving
Life is a crisis - so what!
bad-friend emotional ought
I've noticed your hostility towards him... I ought to have guessed you were friends.
i-love-you world warfare
Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.
funny humor world
I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.
sex groups given
If God had meant us to have group sex, he'd have given us more organs.
lying deceit telling-the-truth
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
education space campus
On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.