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Top 20 David Lodge Quotes (2025 Update)

David Lodge Quote: “Every decoding is another encoding.”

1. “Every decoding is another encoding.”

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David Lodge Quote: “Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.”

2. “Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.”

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David Lodge Quote: “To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

3. “To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”

4. “Any language is necessarily a finite system applied with different degrees of creativity to an infinite variety of situations, and most of the words and phrases we use are “prefabricated” in the sense that we don’t coin new ones every time we speak.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “It’s the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces.”

5. “It’s the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “It was Adam Appleby’s misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about.”

6. “It was Adam Appleby’s misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about.”

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David Lodge Quote: “Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

7. “Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn’t have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another.”

8. “To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another.”

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David Lodge Quote: “Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.”

9. “Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one’s peers.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”

10. “Language is the net that holds thought trapped within a particular culture. But if one could only strike the ball with sufficient force, with perfect timing, it would perhaps break through the netting, continue on its course, never fall to earth, but go into orbit around the world.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Information is the religion of the modern world.”

11. “Information is the religion of the modern world.”

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David Lodge Quote: “That’s the attraction of the conference circuit: it’s a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else’s expense. Write a paper and see the world! I’m Jane Austen – fly me!”

12. “That’s the attraction of the conference circuit: it’s a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else’s expense. Write a paper and see the world! I’m Jane Austen – fly me!”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Analysis has a way of unravelling the self: the longer you pull on the thread, the more flaws you find.”

13. “Analysis has a way of unravelling the self: the longer you pull on the thread, the more flaws you find.”

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David Lodge Quote: “J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.”

14. “J. D. Salinger’s Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It’s a dying art.”

15. “I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It’s a dying art.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for – desire undiluted by habit.”

16. “Perhaps that’s what we’re all looking for – desire undiluted by habit.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “I wondered whether, if Kierkegaard had been a Catholic, they would have made him a saint by now, and built a basilica over his grave. He would make a good patron saint of neurotics.”

17. “I wondered whether, if Kierkegaard had been a Catholic, they would have made him a saint by now, and built a basilica over his grave. He would make a good patron saint of neurotics.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “I’m a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It’s kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you’re sitting on.”

18. “I’m a bit of a deconstructionist myself. It’s kind of exciting – the last intellectual thrill left. Like sawing through the branch you’re sitting on.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.”

19. “He hugs the thought to himself with guilty glee.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other’s company before outside of a dictionary.”

20. “Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other’s company before outside of a dictionary.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “How long does a recession have to last before it’s called a depression?”

21. “How long does a recession have to last before it’s called a depression?”

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David Lodge Quote: “Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

22. “Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “What?’ he said. I’m sure he heard me perfectly well, but like most deaf people he’s got in the habit of saying ‘what?’ automatically to every conversational gambit – I notice myself doing it sometimes.”

23. “What?’ he said. I’m sure he heard me perfectly well, but like most deaf people he’s got in the habit of saying ‘what?’ automatically to every conversational gambit – I notice myself doing it sometimes.”

— David Lodge

David Lodge Quote: “The mind was a capricious and undisciplined creature. You couldn’t always keep it on a lead, and it was for ever dashing off into the undergrowth of the past, digging up some decayed bone of memory, and bringing it back, with tail wagging, to lay it at your feet.”

24. “The mind was a capricious and undisciplined creature. You couldn’t always keep it on a lead, and it was for ever dashing off into the undergrowth of the past, digging up some decayed bone of memory, and bringing it back, with tail wagging, to lay it at your feet.”

— David Lodge

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