61 Quotes by Malcolm Bradbury

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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