The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
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.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury
The better class of Briton likes to send his children away to school until they're old and intelligent enough to come home again. Then they're too old and intelligent to want to.
Sir Malcolm Stanley Bradbury