3 More Novels Quotes

“Mentally, perhaps she was already three parts glass. So intense was her desire to set up a commemorative window to herself that, when it was erected, she believed she must leave behind in it, for ever, a little ghost. And should this be so, then what joy to be pierced each morning with light; her body flooded through and through by the sun, or in the evening to glow with a harvest of dark colours, deepening into untold sadness with the night....
What ecstasy! It was the Egyptian sighing for his pyramid, of course.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Must colour change?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“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.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“After all," she inquired, "isn't heaven a sort of snobbism? A Looking-up, a preference for the best hotel?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“How vague these husbands are.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“I'm glad I can still sometimes drug my senses with a book.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“I fancy there's a new one: Notes on the Tedium of Places-comprising almost everywhere.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“She's full of trivial sadness”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Shall we evoke Morocco with a rose and lilac shoe?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“How could I ever have been happy with her," he had asked," when her favorite colour is crushed strawberry?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Never in her life had she thought so much about him before. Twice in two minutes!”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“But I'm so tired," Winsome said, "of Meeting other people. I want other people to meet me.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“In Ashringford, if souls are rare, we've at least some healthy spirits.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“An over-sensitive person in the country is always a strain.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“And the Dean smiled sheepishly and tried to look less like a wolf. It was a favorite expression of his when addressing youth.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“In a gloomy corner, she's still quite pretty.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“One tooth missing. And only half roughed. on one side only. I'd not call her pretty.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“At which vision, of continual middle age, the younger Miss Flowerman fainted.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“... a TOP!”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“a tiara swamps her”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“What could be more tiresome than a wife that bleats?”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Lady Anne fetched a sigh.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“But after a career of dissipation she seems delighted to settle down.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Lady Barrow lolled languidly in her mouse-eaten library, a volume of mediaeval Tortures (with plates) propped up against her knee. In fancy, her husband was pinned down and imploring for mercy at Figure 3.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Those complicated curls of hers remind me of the codicils to my poor dear Leslie's will.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Never lend your name, or your money, or your books or your umbrella, or anything, to anybody - if you're wise.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“...And it gets so gloomy and so monotonous.

"Probably the casino---”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“I assure you it made me feel quite quaint and queer.”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Poor man, in the end, he became so decorative that he died!”
― Ronald Firbank, 3 More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice