Maurice Bowra quotes
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“I'm a man more dined against than dining.”
-- Maurice BowraSource : In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.
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“Splendid couple - slept with both of them.”
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“Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.”
-- Maurice BowraSource : Cecil Maurice Bowra (2005). “New Bats in Old Belfries: Or Some Loose Tiles”
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“I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.”
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“Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.”
-- Maurice Bowra
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.”
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“Forcing people to eat together is an effective way to promote tolerance.”
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“All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
Source : "The Knock at the Stage Door". Reader's Digest, December 1933.
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.”
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