Logo
Quote by Simon Raven
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a ve

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

Other quotes by Simon Raven

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

Category:
alone
Author
Simon Raven
Read Quote

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. – Simon Raven

Category:
Patience
Author
Simon Raven
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Attitude
category

If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it – London, the people of the south. – Martin C. Smith

Category:
Attitude

Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition. – Charlotte Bronte

Category:
Attitude

The best things in life are unexpected — because there were no expectations. – Eli Khamarov, Surviving on Planet Reebok

Category:
Attitude

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. – Alan Watts

Category:
Attitude

Random Quotes

No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible. – Baudjuin

Category:
Thought

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

Category:
War

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people. – Orson Welles

Category:
Dieting

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families. – Margaret Thatcher

Category:
Men