Ronald Firbank famous quotes
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The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
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There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.
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To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.
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I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.
-- Ronald Firbank
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
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America didn’t bypass or escape civilization. It did something far more profound, far cleverer: it simply changed what civilization could be.
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To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.
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CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
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I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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In a sadly pleasing strain, let the warbling lute complain.
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Often times people complain about the lack of time in television, but I have to say, you don't have any more time to film in feature films then you do in television. It's just a question of how many scenes you'll be doing in the course of a day.
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