255 Quotes by Howard Jacobson

Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.

'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of the outraged wives club could ever be.

The environment in which I studied was so safe, I thought I would die from the boredom of it.

I never believe any politician talking about popular culture.

Sensitivity doesn't necessarily make you easy to get on with.

I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English lit. We are, I argued, if not exactly 'saved' by reading, at least partially 'repaired' by it: made the better morally and existentially.

Do you want to be strangely various, or do you want to be purely yourself? Either way, revere no one.

Many a woman has suffered at the hands of a Paul Morel. There's more than one way of being brutal.

Don't imagine that a word you say is going to make a blind bit of difference.