Wendy Cope Quotes

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

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Wendy Cope

Wendy Cope (born 21 July 1945) is a contemporary English poet. She read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She now lives in Ely, Cambridgeshire, with her husband, the poet Lachlan Mackinnon.

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Wendy Cope

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

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Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up

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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.

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I used to think all poets were Byronic.

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I like you more than I would like to have a cigarette.
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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 gloveAnd try not to notice I've fallen in loveOn 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 songThat says something different. And when was it wrong?On Waterloo Bridge with the wind in my hairI 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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Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

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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.

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And happy families go to church and cheerily they mingle And the whole business is unbelievably dreadful, if you're single.

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My true love hath my heart and I have hers We swapped last Tuesday and felt quite elated But now whenever one of us refers To 'my heart' things get rather complicated.
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The day he moved out was terrible - That evening she went through hell. His absence wasn't a problem But the corkscrew had gone as well.

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