Malcolm Bradbury Quotes

"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
(Related: Corruption, Old, Property, Sin)

"You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Liberals, Sheep)

"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Truth, Americans, English, Lies)

"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: English, World)

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Culture, Detail, 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."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: Experience, Discovery, Ships, World)

"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions."
- Malcolm Bradbury
(Related: God, Liberal)