Maurice Bowra
13 quotes
Biography
"I'm a man more dined against than dining."
"Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails."
"Splendid couple—slept with both of them."
"Though like Our Lord and Socrates he does not publish much, he thinks and says a great deal and has had an enormous influence on our times"
"Where there's death, there's hope."
"Can't help you. Pity. Slept with him once—should have asked him then."
"Buggers can't be choosers"
"I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in Oxford I, at least, am known by my face."
"Wendy Doniger, The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000)"
"Christopher Hollis, Oxford in the Twenties (London: Heinemann, 1976)"
"Hugh Lloyd-Jones, ed. Maurice Bowra: A Celebration (London: Olympic Marketing Corp., 1974)"
"Leslie Mitchell, Maurice Bowra: A Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)"
"Atticus (Roland White), The Sunday Times (11 November 2018)"