Simon Raven Quotes

"Art for art's sake, money for God's sake."
- Simon Raven
(Related: Art, Money, God)

"Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal."
- Simon Raven
(Related: Circumstances, Gentlemen, Now)

"How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool."
- Simon Raven
(Related: God, Football)

"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
- Simon Raven
(Related: Army)

"I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?"
- Simon Raven
(Related: Age, War, Class, Man, Years)

"Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948."
- Simon Raven
(Related: God, Attitude, Bed)

"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
- Simon Raven
(Related: Books, Nothing)