Ronald Firbank famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

  • diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

  • America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.

  • To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

  • CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

  • I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.

  • I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.

  • Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

  • In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.

  • Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.