Ronald Firbank Quotes

#1. Whip," Walter echoed. "So there's an iPhone app for fighting zombies. Interesting.

Amelia Beamer

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

Ronald Firbank

#3. It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody - told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice, and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#4. I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#5. Life's too short to try and understand cold-blooded creatures.

Rita Mae Brown

#6. My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Thomas Dewey

#7. She made a ravishing corpse.

Ronald Firbank

#8. I'd go to swim practice, put my face in the water, and I didn't have to talk to anybody. Swimming was like my escape, but it was also like this huge prison because I felt like I had to swim up to people's standards.

Amanda Beard

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

Ronald Firbank

#10. The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Virginia Postrel

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

Ronald Firbank

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

Ronald Firbank

#13. All millionaires love a baked apple.

Ronald Firbank