While he lived a violent life in his imagination, Eva, lacking any ima — Tom Sharpe

"If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal."

"Eva Wilt got to her feet and stood with the rain running down her face and as she stood there the illusions that had sustained her through the week disappeared. She saw herself as a fat, silly woman who had left her husband in pursuit of a glamour that was false and shoddy and founded on brittle talk and money."

"I have yet to meet a liberal who can withstand the attrition of prolonged discussion of the inessentials. ... There are more ways of killing a cat than stuffing it with cream."

"Theres nothing worse than an introspective drunk."

"Liberal studies means..." said Mrs Chatterway, who prided herself on being an advocate of progressive education, in which role she had made a substantial contribution to the illiteracy rate in several previously good primary schools."

"The man who said the pen was mightier than the sword ought to have tried reading "" to Motor Mechanics."