Quotations
- "Buggers can't be choosers." (explaining his engagement, later called off, to a "plain" girl, Audrey Beecham, niece of the conductor)
- "I am a man more dined against than dining." (parodying King Lear's 'more sinned against than sinning')
- "Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails" or was "useful for filling that awkward time between tea and cocktails."
- "I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody I want to kick in the crotch I had better kick them in the crotch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again."
- "With one or two exceptions, colleges expect their players of games to be reasonably literate."
- "Splendid couple-—slept with both of them", (on hearing of the engagement of a well-known literary pair).
- "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." (writing about Isaiah Berlin)
- "I don't know about you, gentlemen, but in Oxford I, at least, am known by my face." (Allegedly after being caught skinny-dipping in the River Cherwell and placing his hands over his face rather than his privates)
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“Reading any collection of a man’s quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won’t go away hungry, but it’s not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.”
—Christopher Buckley, U.S. author. A review of three books of quotations from Newt Gingrich. “Newtie’s Greatest Hits,” The New York Times Book Review (March 12, 1995)
“A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book—it is a plaything.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)