Tom Sharpe Quotes

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle-class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

The Rev St John Froude put the phone down thoughtfully. The notion that he was sharing the house with a disembodied and recently murdered woman was not one that he had wanted to put to his caller. His reputation for eccentricity was already sufficiently widespread without adding to it.

Skullion had little use for contraceptives at the best of times. Unnatural, he called them, and placed them in the lower social category of things along with elastic-sided boots and made-up bow ties. Not the sort of attire for a gentleman.

God, in his view, had created a perfect world if the book of Genesis was to be believed and it had been going downhill ever since.

All you had to do was tell people what they wanted to hear and they would believe you no matter how implausible your story might be.

In the lotus position at her yoga class she managed to exude energy, and her attempts at Transcendental Meditation had been likened to a pressure-cooker on simmer.

The South African police would leave no stone unturned to see that nothing disturbed the even terror of their lives.