Quotes by Melvyn Bragg

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Broadcaster and author · British · 1939

British broadcaster and author (born 1939)

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“I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years.”

“The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.”

“I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.”

“Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'”

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Class Working Being Thought Done Things Happen Me Listen She Crisis Comedy Never Stupid Think Dangerous

“I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came from it.”
— Melvyn Bragg
Class Working Being

“The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.”
— Melvyn Bragg
Thought Done Things Happen

“Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to listen to her dictating to her secretary one of those romantic novels that she turned out fortnightly.”
— Melvyn Bragg
Me Listen She

“Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never far from the front pages in a constitutional crisis.”
— Melvyn Bragg
Crisis Comedy Never

“Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do, and to think of this attitude as 'very English?'”
— Melvyn Bragg
Stupid Think Dangerous

“I OWE Christianity a debt, and so, I believe, does the world we have lived in for the last 2000 years.”
— Melvyn Bragg

“Christianity also owes me an explanation... For the bigotry, the wickedness, the inhumanity and the wilful ignorance which has also characterized much of its history.”
— Melvyn Bragg