Citas de Malcolm Bradbury

• With sociology one can do anything and call it work

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sociology, Can Do

  Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

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

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Details, Culture, World

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• Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Good Friend, Visits You, Lectures

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.140, Pan Macmillan

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

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Suggestions, Liberalism, Ten Commandments

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• Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Love, Sexy, Warfare

  Malcolm Bradbury (1976). “The history man: a novel”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Education, Space, Campus

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• 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

  Father, Hate, Men

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.168, Pan Macmillan

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• To put it another way: a conference is an elite meeting on equal terms; a congress is a group of elites meeting on opposite terms; a convention is a mob meeting on equal terms; a course is an elite instructing a mob; and a colloquium is a group capable of considering all these phenomena.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Opposites, Way, Groups

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• 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

  Christian, Innocence, Sin

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• Pero estás implicado en el mundo, y tus actos tienen consecuencias para otras personas, y si no lo reconoces, entonces ése es el tipo supremo de crueldad. Todos compartimos en cierta medida el destino de los demás.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Fate, Actions Have Consequences, People

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Most beds aren't as intimate as people think they are.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Thinking, People, Bed

  Malcolm Bradbury (2017). “The History Man: Picador Classic”, p.141, Pan Macmillan

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• I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Funny, Humor, World

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Eating People is Wrong”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• Life is a crisis - so what!

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Problem, Life Is, Problem Solving

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• El objetivo del matrimonio es evitar que te acerques a la vida real. Crees que es una gran lucha con el misterio del ser. Es más como ser asfixiado en chocolate caliente. Hay sexo, pero no es lo que piensas. Maravilloso, durante los primeros quince días. Luego, todos los miércoles. Si no hay un buen concierto nocturno en la Tercera. Mientras tanto te conviertes en un funcionario biológico. Un agente del gran útero femenino, desovando, arrojando sus bienes en tu regazo en busca de socorro. Papá, papá, estamos aquí, y somos caros.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Real, Struggle

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• Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Distraction, Scholarship

  Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “Cuts”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Niños, Hogar, Escuela

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Discovery, Interesting, World

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

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

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Corazón Roto, Hogar, Pensamiento

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

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Lying, Deceit, Telling The Truth

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.172, Pan Macmillan

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• Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Reading, Sleep, Wife

  Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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• I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Book, Way, Stealing

  Malcolm Bradbury (1978). “Eating people is wrong”, Vintage

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• He notado tu hostilidad hacia él... Debí suponer que eran amigos.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Friendship, Bad Friend, Funny Friend

  Malcolm Bradbury (2011). “The History Man”, p.87, Pan Macmillan

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• If God had meant us to have group sex, I guess he'd have given us all more organs.

  Malcolm Bradbury

  Sex, Groups, Given

  "Who do you think you are?: stories and parodies".

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