Ronald Firbank Quotes

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

‘I’ve never travelled,’ Dona Consolation blandly confessed, ‘but I dare say, dear, you can’t judge Egypt by Aida.’

She looks at other women as if she would inhale them.

‘Basta!’ his master replied with all the brilliant glibness of the Berlitz-school.

Beneath the strain of expectation even the little iced sugar cakes upon the tea-table looked green with worry.

‘O! help me heaven,’ she prayed, ‘to be decorative and to do right!’