15 quotes
I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials.
Porterhouse Blue (1971)
By shooting your cook you were refusing him permission to enter your house.
Riotous Assembly (1971)
His had been an intellectual decision founded on his conviction that if a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Porterhouse Blue (1971)
There are more ways of killing a cat than stuffing it with...
Porterhouse Blue (1971)
While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any imagination at all, lived violently in fact.
Wilt (1976)
There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.
The Wilt Alternative (1979)
All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.
The Throwback (1984)
The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country.
The Wilt Alternative (1979)
They [Spaniards] have more luck than bulls.
Sharpe attacks Blair, Bush (2004)
Certainty was essential to him and the written word had a certainty about it that everything else in life lacked.
Grantchester Grind (1995)
The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.
Wilt (1976)
I am in favour of foxhunting because foxes kill chickens
Sharpe attacks Blair, Bush (2004)
President Bush doesn’t need toilet paper. He has Blair.
Sharpe attacks Blair, Bush (2004)
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.
Porterhouse Blue (1971)
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.
Porterhouse Blue (1971)