Kyril Bonfiglioli quotes

“I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.”
-- Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source : Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.18, The Overlook Press

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“I never drink alcohol. I do not like to blunt my senses.’ ‘Goodness,’ I babbled, ‘but how awful for you. Not drinking, I mean. I mean, imagine getting up in the morning knowing that you’re not going to feel any better all day.”
-- Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source : Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.61, The Overlook Press

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“Why do people build houses to keep the climate out, then cut holes in the walls to let it in again? I shall never understand.”
-- Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source : Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.19, The Overlook Press

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“To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.”
-- Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source : Kyril Bonfiglioli (2004). “Don't Point that Thing at Me”, p.69, The Overlook Press

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“It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.”
-- Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source : "After You With The Pistol" by Kyril Bonfiglioli, (Ch. 17), 1979.

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“Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.”

“Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life.”

“The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice.”

“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor

“The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.”

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”

“Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.”

“In one day, I have times where I'm feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I'm the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.”

“May your wife and children get raped, right in the ass. (to the jurors who convicted her)”

“It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!”