230 Quotes by Clive James

Dinner was meat – not hunks of meat, as in Australia, but pathetic scraps of meat, as in Britain – which the girls upstairs transformed into edible dishes by heating it in secret ways and adding bits of stuff to it.

If we want a book to do more than what it does, that’s a condemnation. If we want it to do more of what it does, that’s an endorsement.

My wife and I just started listening to the late Beethoven Quartets together, an activity I recommend for all married couples, but that doesn’t really mean that I’m finished reading.

I won’t have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I’m going: It’s like a row of restaurants in California.

Whoever called snooker 'chess with balls' was rude, but right.