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Tom Sharpe
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“By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are more ways of killing a cat than stuffing it with...”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Zipser's attempts to mollify him by explaining that Durham was a university and that there had been a Durham College in Oxford in 1380 had failed hopelessly. If anything, the mention of Oxford had increased Skullion's antipathy.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Skullion cycled out along the Barton Road towards Coft. His bowler hat set squarely on his head, his cycle clips and his black overcoat buttoned against the cold gave him an intransigently episcopalian air in the snow-covered landscape. He cycled slowly but relentlessly, his thoughts as dark as his habit and as bitter as the wind blowing unchecked from the Urals.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "" to Motor Mechanics.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Liberal studies means..." said Mrs Chatterway, who prided herself on being an advocate of progressive education, in which role she had made a substantial contribution to the illiteracy rate in several previously good primary schools.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eva Wilt got to her feet and stood with the rain running down her face and as she stood there the illusions that had sustained her through the week disappeared. She saw herself as a fat, silly woman who had left her husband in pursuit of a glamour that was false and shoddy and founded on brittle talk and money.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.'”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The authorities had gone on to inculcate their own classless ideals into students whose presence at the University was in itself a measure of their determination to climb the social ladder by the only means made available in the Welfare State.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Certainty was essential to him and the written word had a certainty about it that everything else in life lacked.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“President Bush doesn’t need toilet paper. He has Blair.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am in favour of foxhunting because foxes kill chickens”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They [Spaniards] have more luck than bulls.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fifty miles away, Lord Lynchknowle’s dinner had been interrupted by the arrival of a police car and the news of his daughter’s death. The fact that it had come between the mackerel pâté and the game pie, and on the wine side, an excellent Montrachet and a Château Lafite 1962, several bottles of which he’d opened to impress the Home Secretary and two old friends from the Foreign Office, particularly annoyed him. Not that he intended to let the news spoil his meal by announcing it before he’d finished, but he could foresee an ugly episode with his wife afterwards for no better reason than that he had come back to the table with the rather unfortunate remark that it was nothing important. Of course, he could always excuse himself on the grounds that hospitality came first, and old Freddie was the Home Secretary after all, and he wasn’t going to let that Lafite ’62 go to waste, but somehow he knew Hilary was going to kick up the devil of a fuss about it afterwards.”
Tom Sharpe (1928–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source