Logo
Quote by Malcolm Bradbury
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite b

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

Other quotes by Malcolm Bradbury

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

Category:
Innocence
Author
Malcolm Bradbury
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Manners
category

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. – Albert Camus

Category:
Manners

I can be very polite, but Ive found that doesnt always get a result. You have got to bang and thump tables. – Joy Baluch

Category:
Manners

Of course, behaviorism works. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public. – W. H. Auden

Category:
Manners
[W]hat is good behavior? A lying varnish spread upon a bit of wood to make it pass for a cane. – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

Category:
Manners

Random Quotes

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse. – Alexander Pope

Category:
Poetry

The wishing gate opens into nothing. – C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

Category:
Wish, Wishes, Wishing

Psychopathia librorum…. I surround myself with the printed word. – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)

Category:
Books

Respect is what we owe love, what we give. – Philip James Bailey

Category:
Love