Frases de Ronald Firbank

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank, más conocido como Ronald Firbank, fue un novelista británico nacido en Londres el 17 de enero de 1886 y fallecido en Roma el 21 de mayo de 1926. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. enero 1886 – 21. mayo 1926
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Ronald Firbank: Frases en inglés

“Must colour change?”

Three More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice

“Princess: I am always disappointed with mountains. There are no mountains in the world as high as I could wish.
Adrian: No?
Princess: They irritate me invariably. I should like to shake Switzerland.”

The Princess Zoubaroff, Act I, sc. iv (1920), cited from Steven Moore (ed.) Complete Plays (Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994) p. 55.

“Oh! help me, heaven," she prayed, "to be decorative and to do right!”

The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 516.

“I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?”

Ronald Firbank Valmouth

Valmouth (1918), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 448.

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

Vainglory (1915), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 117.

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

Vainglory, cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 149.

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

The Flower Beneath the Foot, cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 534.

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