Alan Bradley Quotes

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

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One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

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Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

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Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

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Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

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I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I was a very early reader, so I was really brought up being surrounded with piles of British books and British newspapers, British magazines. I developed a really great love of England.

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