Colin MacInnes Quotes & Sayings

The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills. — Colin MacInnes

England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip and Miss Lash ply their trade as nowhere else in the western world. Despite our belief [that] we are a 'gentle' people we have, in reality, a cruel and callous streak in our sweet natures, reinforced by a decadent puritan strain which makes some of us believe that suffering, whether useful or not, is a fit scourge to the wanton soul. — Colin MacInnes

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. — Colin MacInnes

Tradition, if not constantly recreated, can be as much a millstone as a mill-wheel. — Colin MacInnes

In England, pop art and fine art stand resolutely back to back. — Colin MacInnes