Malcolm Bradbury: Likeness

Malcolm Bradbury was English author and academic. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself.”

Malcolm Bradbury

Page 111.
Stepping Westward (1965)

World

“The trouble is, it's hard to know you're little,' says Felicity. 'People like to make themselves matter.”

Malcolm Bradbury book The History Man

Page 126.
The History Man (1975)

People

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

Malcolm Bradbury

Source: Eating People is Wrong (1959), Ch. 5

World

“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

Rates of Exchange, part 5, ch. 3.

Children , School , Home , Intelligence

“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

Page 60.
Stepping Westward (1965)

Sleep , Reading