Quotes by Malcolm Bradbury

• 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.
• 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.
• You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
• The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
• Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
• My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
• If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.