Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Kyril Bonfiglioli

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Kyril Bonfiglioli.

Last updated on April 19, 2025.

Kyril Bonfiglioli was an English art-dealer, magazine editor and comic novelist. His eccentric and witty Mortdecai novels have gained a following since his death.

English - Novelist | May 29, 1928 - March 3, 1985

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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

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

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

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

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

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Kyril Bonfiglioli

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