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Keith Waterhouse
7 quotes
“Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Billy Liar (1959), ch. 1
“I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through.”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[There's] too many people making too much muck and too much noise with too little space to do it in.”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Daily Mirror, August 17, 1970, cited from Mondays, Thursdays (London: Michael Joseph, 1976), pp. 168-169
“Now, […] the world is beginning to look like what it is—overcrowded, dirty, noisy, smelly, and rapidly running out of resources. We're nearing the end of the rainbow, with not a crock of gold in sight.”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Observer Magazine, December 30, 1979
“Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bookends (1990), cited from Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell; Mr. And Mrs. Nobody; and, Bookends (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992) p. 135
“Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?”
Keith Waterhouse (1929–2009) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Spectator, January 15, 1994