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Top 15 Frederic Raphael Quotes (2025 Update)

Frederic Raphael Quote: “As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.”

1. “As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a “good program”: ethic equals showbiz.”

2. “Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a “good program”: ethic equals showbiz.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.”

3. “One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.”

4. “Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one’s belt buckled.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

5. “Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.”

6. “Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Vichy proves one thing: if you don’t want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don’t lose a war.”

7. “Vichy proves one thing: if you don’t want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don’t lose a war.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?”

8. “The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.”

9. “Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”

10. “At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people’s mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you’ve unravelled them, their heads fall off.”

11. “We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people’s mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you’ve unravelled them, their heads fall off.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”

12. “The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.”

13. “People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.”

14. “The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning.”

15. “Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning.”

— Frederic Raphael

Frederic Raphael Quote: “I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.”

16. “I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.”

— Frederic Raphael

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