"Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read."

-- Peter Bradshaw

#School Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Oxford Quotes

“It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.”
“We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.”
“The drama is the book of the people.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1866). “Pleasures, Objects, and Advantages of Literature”, p.87
“I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.”

Source : "My favourite table". Interview with Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2007.
“Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good”
“Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
“Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.”
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”

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