True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole Quotes

“I’ve been a bit worried about my maleness lately, somewhere along the line I seem to have picked up too many female hormones.”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“A. MOLE’S SCONES Ingredients 4 oz flour or metric equivalent 2 oz butter or metric equivalent 2 oz sugar or metric equivalent 1 egg (eggs are still only eggs) Method Beat up all the ingredients. Make a tin greasy, throw it all in. Turn oven to number 5. Wait until scones are higher than they were. Should be 12 minutes, but keep opening oven door every 30 seconds.”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“In my opinion it is essential to get lost in a new city, that way you are forced to walk about and discover places at a proper, natural pace. But you must have the taxi fare home, and it helps if you can remember the name of your hotel.”
― Sue Townsend, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

“Thatcherism”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“Ничего не меняется в этом мире. Богатые по-прежнему снимают сливки, а бедным достаются все шишки”
― Sue Townsend, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

“В моих ушах звучал мерный стук ее тяжелых ботинок, когда она на цыпочках шла к двери и спускалась по лестнице”
― Sue Townsend, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

“My own improverished family benefit from Nigel’s impetuousness. We are all walking around in Nigel’s new old shoes. Even Grandma is wearing a pair. They are too big for her but, with the wisdom of the old, she found a way of making them fit by stuffing the toes with toilet paper.”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“philistines,”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“To me then, at the age of eleven, Santa Clause was a bit like God, all-seeing, all-knowing, but without the lousy things that God allows to happen: earthquakes, famines, motorway crashes.”
― Sue Townsend, True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole

“vandal, Mole,”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole

“ere mate”
― Sue Townsend, The True Confessions of Adrian Mole