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Bernard Levin

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In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.


— Bernard Levin


#age

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.


— Bernard Levin


#going #him #however #man #probably

Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally begin with it.


— Bernard Levin


#begin #cancers #efforts #impressive #naturally

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.


— Bernard Levin


#amount #believe #believing #could #deter

Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.


— Bernard Levin


#bless #blow #british #else #even

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?


— Bernard Levin


#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only






About Bernard Levin

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Did you know about Bernard Levin?

("Boom") Macnutt the school's head of Classics. He is buried in Brompton Cemetery London. In the 1980s Levin made three television series for Channel 4.

From the early 1990s Levin developed Alzheimer's disease which eventually forced him to give up his regular column in 1997 and to stop writing altogether not long afterwards. After a disagreement with the proprietor of the paper over attempted censorship of his column in 1970 Levin moved to The Times where with one break of just over a year in 1981–82 he remained as resident columnist until his retirement covering a wide range of topics both serious and comic. During the 1960s he wrote five columns a week for The Daily Mail on any subject that he chose.

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