"Lucky Jim" Quotes
A hapless college professor navigates a series of humorous mishaps in this satirical tale of academic life.
fiction | 266 pages | Published in 1976
Quotes
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
He wanted to see the world as a place where things could be done, and not as a place where nothing could be done.
He felt that he was being swept away into a vortex of disillusionment, which always seemed to him part of the process of falling in love.
Life can get you down, but it can really put on a good show while it's doing it.
The world, he thought, was divided into two parts—those who just did not have the time for sentimental nonsense and those who were carried away by it.
Sometimes he wondered why he ever came to college at all—why he did not simply go out and do something useful.
His thoughts ranged vaguely from one aspect of his life to another without any illumination to help him bring them into order or unity.
He was conscious of himself as a man on the fringes of things, like those seedy, hangdog people who go to seed conspicuously in foreign towns.
It was not so much the thought of seeing her again that irritated him as the thought of another evening spent in the Centre of Owls.
Jim knew nothing about art, but he was learning a lot about pretension.
