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Top 20 Beryl Bainbridge Quotes (2025 Update)

Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

1. “Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.”

2. “The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

3. “Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don’t. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

4. “I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don’t. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course – the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled.”

5. “There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course – the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour.”

6. “The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”

7. “What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.”

8. “The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.”

9. “It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

10. “There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.”

11. “Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.”

12. “It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.”

13. “Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it’s any different.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.”

14. “When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen.”

15. “Mrs MacFarley called the valley the Glen. She called the light at early evening the gloaming. She liked to go Roaming in the Gloaming in the Glen.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “As a child she had been taught it was rude to say no, unless she didn’t mean it. If she was offered another piece of cake and she wanted it she was obliged to refuse out of politeness. And if she didn’t want it she had to say yes, even if it choked her. It was involved but understandable.”

16. “As a child she had been taught it was rude to say no, unless she didn’t mean it. If she was offered another piece of cake and she wanted it she was obliged to refuse out of politeness. And if she didn’t want it she had to say yes, even if it choked her. It was involved but understandable.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children – except to bring in the money.”

17. “I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children – except to bring in the money.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat – that was the difference between them.”

18. “At night when they prepared for bed Freda removed all her clothes and lay like a great fretful baby, majestically dimpled and curved. Brenda wore her pajamas and her underwear and a tweed coat – that was the difference between them.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”

19. “Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn’t bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.”

20. “Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.”

21. “The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “I left him and went up on deck to look out at the slithering city, its glitter of street lamps fizzy under the rain. There’s something wrong about a ship in dock, something pathetic, like a bird fluttering in a spill of oil. The Nova was tethered to her berth by ropes and chains, caught in a pool of greasy water. I could feel her shifting under my feet, tugging to be free.”

22. “I left him and went up on deck to look out at the slithering city, its glitter of street lamps fizzy under the rain. There’s something wrong about a ship in dock, something pathetic, like a bird fluttering in a spill of oil. The Nova was tethered to her berth by ropes and chains, caught in a pool of greasy water. I could feel her shifting under my feet, tugging to be free.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”

23. “Emotions weren’t like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”

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Beryl Bainbridge Quote: “I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I’ve never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.”

24. “I’ve never been drawn to the feminist movement. I’ve never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.”

— Beryl Bainbridge

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