Firbank Quotes

#1. The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Cyril Connolly

#2. I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.

Leo Fitzpatrick

#3. All millionaires love a baked apple.

Ronald Firbank

#4. There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

Ronald Firbank

#5. Urge and urge and urge,
Always the procreant urge of the world.

Walt Whitman

#6. I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.

Ronald Firbank

#7. They say in the east you love the person you marry and in the west you marry the person you love. But maybe it's a lot simpler than that. Maybe you just love the person you love.

Tanuja Desai Hidier

#8. A negative is never finished.

Sigmar Polke

#9. Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Mark Twain

#10. To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Ronald Firbank

#11. She made a ravishing corpse.

Ronald Firbank

#12. Gabriel, to thee thy course by lot hath given
Charge and strict watch that to this happy place
No evil thing approach or enter in.

John Milton

#13. National identity is the last bastion of the dispossessed. But the meaning of identity is now based on hatred, on hatred for those who are not the same.

Umberto Eco

#14. There's precious little to say between day and dark,
Perhaps a few words on the implacable will
Of time sailing like a magic barque
Or something as fine for the amenities ...

Allen Tate

#15. Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay

#16. Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

Frank Sinatra

#17. A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

Delia Smith

#18. But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

Robert Conrad

#19. The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.

Ronald Firbank

#20. That doesn't make him a hero. Our country is doomed, don't you see? Our fate is death, no matter whose hands we fall into.

Ruta Sepetys