Maurice Bowra Quotes

• Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

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  Awkward, Cocktails, Hours

  Cecil Maurice Bowra (2005). “New Bats in Old Belfries: Or Some Loose Tiles”

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• I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

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  World, Want, Way

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• Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

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  Funny, Couple, Humor

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• Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

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  Mind, Allies, Argument

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• I'm a man more dined against than dining.

  Maurice Bowra

  Food, Men, Dining

  In John Betjeman 'Summoned by Bells' (1960) ch. 9.

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