Wendy Cope Quotes

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

~ Wendy Cope

Again Bloody Christmas Cup Earth Goodwill Here Let Us Loving Make Men Peace Raise Them Up Us Washing

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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.

~ Wendy Cope

About About A Year Appear Approaches Bloody Buses Like Men Others Soon Stop Three Two Wait Year You Your

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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

~ Wendy Cope

Arises Better Good Happy Happy Life I Think Life Over Particularly Plots Question Supply Think Tragic Whether Which Women Women Writers Writers

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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.

~ Wendy Cope

Afraid Always Going Poem Publish Publishing Quite Separate Should Someone Students Tell Things Two Upset Write Writing You

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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.

~ Wendy Cope

Better Better Off Boarding Boarding School Got Kind Off Parents School Send Theory Want Who You

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I like a quiet life.

~ Wendy Cope

Life Like Quiet Quiet Life

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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.

~ Wendy Cope

Allowance Buying Clothes Get Like

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I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

~ Wendy Cope

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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.

~ Wendy Cope

Been Famous More Never Suddenly Than

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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

~ Wendy Cope

Going Journalists Lot More Poems Prepared Said Say Tell Them Then Think Whole You

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In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

~ Wendy Cope

Between Books Case Confidence Gaps Got Lack Long Lot Quite Quite A Lot Start Thinking Time Writing

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Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.

~ Wendy Cope

Become Been Funny Happier Less Possibly

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The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.

~ Wendy Cope

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There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.

~ Wendy Cope

Everyone Family Family Values Funny Going Humour Laugh Lot Make Poems Quite Quite A Lot Some Them Think Values Want

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