Tom Sharpe Quotes

#1. Do go on,' he said. 'There's nothing I enjoy more than listening to a highly trained intelligence leapfrogging common sense and coming to the wrong conclusions. It gives me renewed faith in parliamentary democracy.

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#2. All is fair in love, war and tax evasion.

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#3. The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "The Mill on the Floss" to Motor Mechanics.

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#4. There's nothing worse than an introspective drunk.

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#5. I have yet to met a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the unessentials.

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#6. The number of choirboys indecently assaulted annually by vicars and churchwardens may lead you to suppose that England is a deeply religious country. I

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#7. We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

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#8. I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.

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#9. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

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