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Maurice Bowra Quotes

1898–1971 England

Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra (8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971) was an English classical scholar, literary critic and academic, known for his wit. He was Warden of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1938 to 1970, and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1951 to 1954.

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Also known as: C. M. Bowra

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I'm a man more dined against than dining.

Splendid couple—slept with both of them.

On hearing of the engagement of a well-known literary pair. — Wilson (2009)

Whatever you hear about the war, remember it was inconceivably bloody — nobody who wasn't there can ever imagine what it was like.

Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Cartwright (2008)

Can't help you. Pity. Slept with him once—should have asked him then.

Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times

About Isaiah Berlin. Letter to Noel Annan. — Lloyd-Jones (1974)

I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in Oxford I, at least, am known by my face.

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Buggers can't be choosers

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Maurice Bowra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.