Quotes by Wendy Cope - Page 1

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 / Poet
Christmas
Smile
Men
Bloody
Cups
Earth
Goodwill
Washing
Again
Cup
Let Us
Loving
Raise
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I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Quiet
Quiet Life
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Never trust a journalist.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Journalist
Never Trust
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Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Loner
Pairs
Sock
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Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Happier
Possibly
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My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Heart
Mind
My Heart
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Suddenly
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Allowance
Buying
Clothes
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The reason modern poetry is difficult is so that the poet's wife cannot understand it.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Poetry
Reason
Wife
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When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'
Wendy Cope / Poet
Asks
Firsts
Telling The Truth
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I used to think all poets were Byronic Mad, bad and dangerous to know. And then I met a few. See Lamb 486:25.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Lambs
Mad
Thinking
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Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
Wendy Cope / Poet
People
Suggestions
Writing
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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 / Poet
Journalist
Prepared
Said
Thinking
Journalists
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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 / Poet
Men
Bloody
Three
Two
Years
About A Year
Appear
Approaches
Year
Buses
Wait
Stop
Soon
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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 / Poet
Better Off
Parent
School
Theory
Want
Boarding
Boarding School
Send
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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 / Poet
Happy Life
Plot
Thinking
Tragic
Life Good Women
Arises
Writers
Particularly
Plots
Question
Supply
Women Writers
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There are so many kinds of awful men One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Men
Awful
Mistake
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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 / Poet
Book
Gaps
Thinking
Writing
Time Thinking Long
Quite A Lot
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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 / Poet
Family Values
Humour
Poems
Quite A Lot
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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 / Poet
Long
People
Thinking
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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 / Poet
Family Values
Long Time
Upset
Life Alone Time
Life Alone Family
Phase
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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 / Poet
Humour
Interesting
Light
Poet
Afraid
Seen
Interesting Thing
Meet
Sense
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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 / Poet
Publish
Publishing
Two
Upset
Writing
Poem
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My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you. Whatever you’ve got lined up, My heart has made its mind up And if you can’t be signed up This year, next year will do. My heart has made its mind up And I’m afraid it’s you.
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Heart
Mind
Years
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At lunchtime I bought a huge orange The size of it made us all laugh. I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave— They got quarters and I had a half. And that orange it made me so happy, As ordinary things often do Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park This is peace and contentment. It's new. The rest of the day was quite easy. I did all my jobs on my list And enjoyed them and had some time over. I love you. I'm glad I exist.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Jobs
Love You
Shopping
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On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes, the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. I wipe them away with a black woolly glove And try not to notice I've fallen in love On Waterloo Bridge I am trying to think: This is nothing. you're high on the charm and the drink. But the juke-box inside me is playing a song That says something different. And when was it wrong? On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hair I am tempted to skip. You're a fool. I don't care. the head does its best but the heart is the boss- I admit it before I am halfway across
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Goodbye
Heart
Song
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