Kyril Bonfiglioli Quotes & Sayings

To be on foot in the United States is only immoral, not illegal. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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

How sharper than a serpent's tooth is an awakening without tea! — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

There's nothing like gunfire to drive the glamour from words. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

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

Bed is the only place for protracted telephoning. It is also execellently suited to reading, sleeping and listening to canaries. It is not a good place for sex: sex should take place in armchairs, or in bathrooms, or on lawns which have been brushed but not too recently mown, or on sandy beaches if you happen to have been circumcised. If you are too tired to have intercourse except in bed you are probably too tired anyway and should be husbanding your strength. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

she looked about as hard to get as a haircut and at about the same price. — Kyril Bonfiglioli

I never think of policemen's wives; their beauty maddens me like wine. — Kyril Bonfiglioli