Duff Cooper quotes

“Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counselor.”
-- Duff Cooper

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“Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace.”
-- Duff Cooper

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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“Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.”
-- Duff Cooper

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.57, Faber & Faber

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“For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.”
-- Duff Cooper

Source : Duff Cooper (2011). “Old Men Forget”, p.116, Faber & Faber

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“I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.”
-- Duff Cooper

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“One can make a joke, but one can't be one.”
-- Duff Cooper

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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”

“It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, "And this too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

“Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.”

“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”

“Happy insect! what can be In happiness compared to thee? Fed with nourishment divine, The dewy morning's gentle wine! Nature waits upon thee still, And thy verdant cup does fill; 'Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede.”

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”

“But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.”

“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412

“My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!”