Kyril Bonfiglioli Quotes

#1. There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words.

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#2. 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.

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#3. I very carefully levered up an eyelid and shut it again fast. A merciless sunbeam had squirted straight in, making my brain bleed.

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#4. she looked about as hard to get as a haircut and at about the same price.

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#5. Some of my best friends are women,' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them.

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#6. To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal.

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#7. 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.

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#8. It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

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#9. How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea!

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#10. I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine.

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#11. 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.

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