Malcolm Bradbury

Why is it that married people always say "Come in" when everything they do says "Get out"? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you're unmarried. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#marriage

With sociology one can do anything and call it work ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#sociology #sociology

Marriage, [...], the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#marriage

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#culture #defining #detail #way #world

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

#american #american history #burn #did #down

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

— Malcolm Bradbury

#commandments #god #had #liberal #suggestions

The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#lies #polite #telling #telling lies #telling the truth

You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#goats #homes #just #liberals #sheep

I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#english #i #immorality #like #most

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

#completely #discovery #experience #finds #interesting