A David Lodge Trilogy Quotes

“the dinner which awaited them afterwards—tomato soup, roast beef and two vegetables, jam tart with custard—from every item of which all trace of flavour had been conscientiously removed by prolonged cooking at high temperatures.”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“Since his departure they made the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party seem like a paradigm of positive decision-making.”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“Such summonses were a common occurrence in the life of Dr. O’Shea, who seemed to spend a fantastic amount of time on the road—compared, anyway, to American doctors, who in Morris’s experience would only visit you at home if you were actually dead.”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“And in any case, what kind of a recommendation for a place was it that you could get out of it easily?”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“There was no real winter in Euphoria—autumn joined hands with spring and summer, and together they danced a three-handed jig all year long, to the merry confusion of the vegetable world.”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work

“In spite of himself, Philip is amused by some of the slogans. Obviously it is a new literary medium, the lapel button, something between the classical epigram and the imagist lyric.”
― David Lodge, The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work