Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

- Simon Raven

... life is short and the world is wide

- Simon Raven

Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.

- Simon Raven

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

- Simon Raven

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich r…

- Simon Raven

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

- Simon Raven

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundre…

- Simon Raven

...dusk is the time when men whisper of matters about which they remain silent in the full light of the sun.

- Simon Raven

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.

- Simon Raven