Wendy Cope Quotes

#1. Reminded of favorite poem by Wendy Cope which goes:
At Christmas little children sing and merry bells jingle.
The cold winter air makes our hands and faces tingle.
And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle,
And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful if you're single.

Helen Fielding

#2. Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion!
I write to make people anxious and miserable and to
worsen their indigestion.

Wendy Cope

#3. I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

Wendy Cope

#4. I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

Wendy Cope

#5. There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

Alberto Salazar

#6. I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.

Wendy Cope

#7. In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

Wendy Cope

#8. The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.

Wendy Cope

#9. The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

Wendy Cope

#10. I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

Wendy Cope

#11. Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

Wendy Cope

#12. I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

Wendy Cope

#13. Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis
It was a dream I had last week
And some kind of record seemed vital.
I knew it wouldn't be much of a poem
But I love the title.

Wendy Cope

#14. There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.

Wendy Cope

#15. In the dictionary, beautiful, love, amazing, and sweet all have the same definition: the definition is you.

Kevin Huizenga

#16. I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.

Greg Lake

#17. Another Christmas Poem
Blood Christmas, here again.
Let us raise a loving cup:
Peace on earth, goodwill to men,
And make them do the washing-up.

Wendy Cope

#18. There's only 2 reasons that you hate gay marriage;
1. You're dumb, or 2. You're secretly worried that dicks are delicious.

Joe Rogan

#19. When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

Wendy Cope

#20. I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

Wendy Cope

#21. I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

Wendy Cope

#22. There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

Wendy Cope

#23. Never trust a journalist.

Wendy Cope

#24. I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

Wendy Cope

#25. My heart has made its mind up
And I'm afraid it's you.
Whatever you've got lined up,
My heart has made its mind up
And if you can't be signed up
This year, next year will do.
My heart has made its mind up
And I'm afraid it's you.

Wendy Cope

#26. Managers, regardless of salary, should not be allowed to earn or use comp time. They are expected to work as many hours as needed to get the job done - especially at these salary levels.

Jodi Rell

#27. I like a quiet life.

Wendy Cope

#28. To live a great life, focus and do what makes you happy.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

Wendy Cope

#30. The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

Dalai Lama XIV