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
Burn, About, Fathers, Hating
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
- Malcolm Bradbury
Culture, World, Detail, Defining
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
Interesting, Makes, About, Ships
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
- Malcolm Bradbury
World, Code, Most, Immorality
You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.
- Malcolm Bradbury
Broken, Think, Goats, Sheep
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
- Malcolm Bradbury
Been, Had, Commandments, Suggestions
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
Original, Very, Christians, Corruption
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
- Malcolm Bradbury
Truth, Telling, Polite, Telling The Truth
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