Duff Cooper Quotes & Sayings

I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists. — Duff Cooper

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. — Duff Cooper

Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. — Duff Cooper

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter. — Duff Cooper

One can make a joke, but one can't be one. — Duff Cooper

Wine has been to me a firm friend and a wise counsellor. Wine has lit up for me the pages of literature, and revealed in life romance lurking in the commonplace. Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them. If such small indiscretions standing in the debit column of wine's account were added up, they would amount to nothing in comparison with the vast accumulation on the credit side. — Duff Cooper