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Maurice Bowra Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Maurice Bowra
World, Want, Way

Splendid couple - slept with both of them.

Maurice Bowra
Funny, Couple, Humor

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

Maurice Bowra
Mind, Allies, Argument

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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