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So Shakespeare stole; but he did wonderful things with his plunder. He's like somebody who nicks your old socks and then darns them.
— Mark Forsyth
After all, fiction is only fact minus time.
— Mark Forsyth
The glorious insanities of the English language mean that you can do all sorts of odd and demeaning things to a book. You can cook it.
— Mark Forsyth
A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Nothing is better than eternal happiness. So eternal happiness is beaten by a ham sandwich.
— Mark Forsyth
Wamblecropt is the most exquisite word in the English language. Say it. Each syllable is intolerably beautiful.
— Mark Forsyth
Most people can improvise in unrhymed dactyls for hours. It's just that you lose all your friends if you do.
— Mark Forsyth
Anyone who has ever taken out a mortgage will be unsurprised to learn that it is, literally, a /death pledge/.
— Mark Forsyth
Position for his colleague in Secret Intelligence would be just the reverse. Sir Mark was having
— Frederick Forsyth
Lord, deliver us from what we already knew we wanted. Give us some new desires, the weirder the better.
— Mark Forsyth
A dutiful son has to remember not to slouch or swear or, in Hamlet's case, murder the old bat.
— Mark Forsyth
Freud said that everything was secretly sexual. But etymologists know that sex is secretly food.
— Mark Forsyth
The Bible is chock-a-block with such unnecessary but beautiful antitheses. God, whatever his other failings, is a great rhetorician.
— Mark Forsyth
Who needs sense when you have alliteration?
— Mark Forsyth
If somebody learns how to phrase things beautifully, they might be able to persuade you of something that isn't true.
— Mark Forsyth
Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.
— Mark Forsyth
