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Top 20 Wendy Cope Quotes (2025 Update)

Wendy Cope Quote: “Never trust a journalist.”

1. “Never trust a journalist.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “Bloody men are like bloody buses – you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”

2. “Bloody men are like bloody buses – you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “There are so many kinds of awful men One can’t avoid them all. She often said She’d never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.”

3. “There are so many kinds of awful men One can’t avoid them all. She often said She’d never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.”

4. “I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.”

5. “My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.”

6. “Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet’s wife cannot understand it.”

7. “The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet’s wife cannot understand it.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you’re afraid it’s going to upset someone, don’t publish it.”

8. “I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you’re afraid it’s going to upset someone, don’t publish it.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “Some socks are loners They can’t live in pairs.”

9. “Some socks are loners They can’t live in pairs.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.”

10. “Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.”

11. “My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I have a theory that if you’ve got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you’re probably better off at boarding school.”

12. “I have a theory that if you’ve got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you’re probably better off at boarding school.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “When a poem doesn’t work, the first question to ask yourself is, ‘Am I telling the truth?’”

13. “When a poem doesn’t work, the first question to ask yourself is, ‘Am I telling the truth?’”

Wendy Cope Quote: “Possibly I’ve become less funny as I’ve been happier.”

14. “Possibly I’ve become less funny as I’ve been happier.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.”

15. “I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I’m not writing I start thinking I can’t do it.”

16. “In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I’m not writing I start thinking I can’t do it.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I’ve said what I’m prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you’re going to tell them a whole lot more.”

17. “I’ve said what I’m prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you’re going to tell them a whole lot more.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I think it’s a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it’s better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.”

18. “I think it’s a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it’s better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers.”

19. “The interesting thing is that you don’t often meet a poet who doesn’t have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they’re afraid of being seen as light versifiers.”

Wendy Cope Quote: “I’ve never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.”

20. “I’ve never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.”

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