12 Quotes by Ronald Firbank

It is said, I believe, that to behold the Englishman at his best one should watch him play tip-and-run.

I hear it's the Hebrew in Heaven, sir. Spanish is seldom spoken.

All millionaires love a baked apple.

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

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

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

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

I adore italics, don’t you?

Although there were moments even still in the grey glint of morning when the room had the agitated, stricken appearance of a person who had changed his creed a thousand times, sighed, stretched himself, turned a complete somersault, sat up, smiled, lay down, turned up his toes and died of doubts. But this aspect was reserved exclusively for the housemaids and the translucent threads of dawn.