Jerusalem the Golden Quotes

“I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction”
― Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden

“His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes; he was unable to let a good idea drop, and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse. The comment had some truth in it, in that the heroine did have an equine cast of feature, but he made it too often, and with too little variation; however, she was willing to forgive him, in view of his evident tolerance of her social errors, such as an inability to say whether or not she wanted an ice cream.”
― Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden

“She liked Christian names, she liked those who used them as a sign of easy inclusion and intimacy, but to her the use of a name remained a proclamation, an action, an event. She was not accustomed to names.”
― Margaret Drabble, Jerusalem the Golden