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Top 25 Malcolm Bradbury Quotes (2025 Update)

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.”

1. “Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.”

2. “Marriage is the most advanced form of warfare in the modern world.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.”

4. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don’t recognize that, then that’s the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else’s fate to some extent.”

5. “But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don’t recognize that, then that’s the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else’s fate to some extent.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “I like the English. They have the most rigid code if immorality in the world.”

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

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Well, aren’t you just saying it’s better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?”

9. “Well, aren’t you just saying it’s better to be neurotic, sensitive, and miserable than unimaginative, adjusted and content? Is it really better?”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “With sociology one can do anything and call it work.”

10. “With sociology one can do anything and call it work.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Life is a crisis – so what!”

11. “Life is a crisis – so what!”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

12. “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

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Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong way round. The important thing is not to change the world too much until you understand it.”

13. “Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong way round. The important thing is not to change the world too much until you understand it.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.”

14. “You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.”

15. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “With my sort of book there’s no resolution, because there’s no solution. The problems aren’t answered in the end because there is no answer. They’re problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It’s not a beautiful world.”

16. “With my sort of book there’s no resolution, because there’s no solution. The problems aren’t answered in the end because there is no answer. They’re problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It’s not a beautiful world.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only to see a reality invented for him, in which he conspires.”

18. “There are no travellers now, only tourists. A traveller comes to see a reality that is there already. A tourist comes only to see a reality invented for him, in which he conspires.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Everywhere there are the politicians and the priest, the ayatollahs and the economists, who will try to explain that reality is what they say it is. Never trust them; trust only the novelist, those deep bankers who spend their time trying to turn pieces of printed paper into value, but never pretend that the result is anything more than a useful fiction.”

19. “Everywhere there are the politicians and the priest, the ayatollahs and the economists, who will try to explain that reality is what they say it is. Never trust them; trust only the novelist, those deep bankers who spend their time trying to turn pieces of printed paper into value, but never pretend that the result is anything more than a useful fiction.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Most beds aren’t as intimate as people think they are.”

20. “Most beds aren’t as intimate as people think they are.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.”

21. “One thing I have learned, my friend, there is no such thing as the future. The future is just what we invent in the present to put an order over the past.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”

23. “The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it’s a question of one’s humanity.”

24. “One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it’s a question of one’s humanity.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “Why is it that married people always say “Come in” when everything they do says “Get out”? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you’re unmarried.”

26. “Why is it that married people always say “Come in” when everything they do says “Get out”? They talk about their miseries and then ask you why you’re unmarried.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.”

27. “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

Malcolm Bradbury Quote: “You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can’t understand it.”

28. “You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can’t understand it.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

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