Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Malcolm Bradbury:

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#d0da6c28

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.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#805bc58b

If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#40d05b27

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.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#ef9c29d1

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#f4565286

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#4fc959b8

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
~Malcolm Bradbury


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#edc203e5

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/malcolm-bradbury-quotes/#71edc127

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