Keith Waterhouse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Leafs #Shows #Turns
Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Should
Lying in bed, I abandoned the facts again and was back in Ambrosia.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Lying #Bed #Facts
The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Expression #Faces #Feds
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Glasses #Bookstores #Village
Ninety-five percent of all statistics, including this one, are bogus.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Statistics #Ninety #Five
I cannot bring myself to vote for a woman who has been voice-trained to speak to me as though my dog has just died.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Dog #Voice #Vote
Never look to politicians to solve your problems, they will only create new ones.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Looks #Problem #Politician
A consultation process is what some authority sets in motion preparatory to doing what it intended all along.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Authority #Process #Consultation
Trying to keep up with current slang sucks.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Trying #Currents #Slang
The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.
-- Keith Waterhouse

#Events #Eclipse #Millennium

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