Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Beryl Bainbridge

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Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often macabre tales set among the English working class. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 by Charlotte Higgins as "a national treasure". In 2008, The Times named Bainbridge on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

English - Writer | Born: November 21, 1934

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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

Beryl Bainbridge

When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

Beryl Bainbridge

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

Beryl Bainbridge

It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

Beryl Bainbridge

Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

Beryl Bainbridge

I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

Beryl Bainbridge

The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

Beryl Bainbridge

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

Beryl Bainbridge

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

Beryl Bainbridge

Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

Beryl Bainbridge

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

Beryl Bainbridge

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

Beryl Bainbridge

no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

Beryl Bainbridge

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Beryl Bainbridge

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Beryl Bainbridge

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Beryl Bainbridge

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

Beryl Bainbridge

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

Beryl Bainbridge

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

Beryl Bainbridge

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Beryl Bainbridge

Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

Beryl Bainbridge

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

Beryl Bainbridge

Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Beryl Bainbridge

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