Margaret Drabble Quotes

The English can be a very critical, unforgiving people, but criticism can be good. And this is a country that loves comedy.

I don't talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don't think like him. I don't like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

I'm not a particularly shiny, happy person. I'm fairly cynical, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I absorb the science section of 'The New York Times.' You know, I have a degree: I'm an A.A.D. Almost a Doctor.

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Meta-comedy is everywhere and always seems so cold and to me is really kinda snarky.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

Education is worth a whole lot. Just think - with enough education and brains the average man would make a good lawyer - and so would the average lawyer.

I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I have a very dark sense of humor.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

I have a dark sense of humor.

I like doom and gloom with a sense of humour. Maybe it's a Scottish thing, we like to undercut indulgence with a laugh.

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.