Wendy Cope Quotes

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.
Wendy Cope

Peace, Men, Christmas

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.
Wendy Cope

Life, Good, Women

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.
Wendy Cope

Men, Two, Others

I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
Wendy Cope

Someone, Writing, Two

I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
Wendy Cope

School, Parents, Off

I like a quiet life.
Wendy Cope

I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
Wendy Cope

Clothes, Buying, Allowance

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'
Wendy Cope

Life, Family, Time

I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
Wendy Cope

Famous, Suddenly

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
Wendy Cope

Said, Tell, Whole

In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.
Wendy Cope

Time, Long, Confidence

Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
Wendy Cope

Funny, Become, Less

The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour, and some of them do keep it out of their poems because they're afraid of being seen as light versifiers.
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Light, Sense, Keep

There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there are quite a lot of poems there that aren't funny at all.
Wendy Cope

Funny, Family, Laugh

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: July 21, 1945

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