Ronald Firbank quotes
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“The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
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“All millionaires love a baked apple.”
-- Ronald FirbankSource : 'Vainglory' (1915) ch. 13
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“There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.”
-- Ronald FirbankSource : Vainglory (1915) ch. 6
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“To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.”
-- Ronald FirbankSource : Ronald Firbank (1986). “3 More Novels”, p.66, New Directions Publishing
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“I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.”
-- Ronald FirbankSource : 'The Flower Beneath the Foot' (1923) ch. 4
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“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
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“diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.”
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“Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions”
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“In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.”
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Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.
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