# Malcolm Bradbury

- Quotes: 19
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury

## Books

- [Eating People is Wrong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/eating-people-is-wrong.md) — 4 quotes
- [Stepping Westward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward.md) — 9 quotes
- [The History Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/the-history-man.md) — 6 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> "You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience."

p. 352 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/you-see-you.md)

> [A]nd the traffic noise that boomed in through the window was another reminder of what his spirit knew, that he was but a grain of sand in someone else's desert.

p. 150 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/a-nd-the-traffic.md)

> I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/eating-people-is-wrong/i-like-the.md)

> My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

p. 74 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/my-experience-of-ships.md)

> With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/eating-people-is-wrong/with-sociology-one.md)

> I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/eating-people-is-wrong/ive-often-thought.md)

> The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/the-english-are.md)

> "Well," said Dr Jochum, "you are like all reformers. You like to reform the world because it is easier than trying to reform yourself."

p. 111 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/well-said-dr-jochum.md)

> 'All action leads to suffering, someone else's, or one's own.'

p. 117 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/the-history-man/all-action-leads.md)

> "We got a course in picknicking at the university," said Dr. Bourbon. "It's called Geology, but it's really picknicking."

p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/stepping-westward/we-got-a-course.md)

> 'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'

p. 143 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/the-history-man/it-must-be-nice.md)

> 'I think, George,' says Merion, ' the trouble is that you don't have a conflict model of society.'

p. 134 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/malcolm-bradbury/the-history-man/i-think-george.md)