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21 " (Pouting is one of those dying arts; Mrs Spon can do it, so can the boy who creates my shirts, but it’s almost as rare nowadays as tittering and sniggering. "
― Kyril Bonfiglioli , After You with the Pistol (Charlie Mortdecai, #2)
22 " Sleep is not, with me, a mere switching off: it is a very positive pleasure to be supped and savoured with expertise. It was a good night; sleep pampered me like a familiar, salty mistress who yet always has a new delight with which to surprise her jaded lover. "
― Kyril Bonfiglioli , Don't Point that Thing at Me (Charlie Mortdecai #1)
23 " I ate a great quantity of turbot, some boiled mutton and a few nicely-dressed woodcocks, each set upon a toast which had been spread with the bird’s “trails”, peppered. “Trails” means guts. I also drank some wine. "
― Kyril Bonfiglioli , All the Tea in China
24 " Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore. "
25 " that season when we remind each other of the judicial murder of a Jewish revolutionary two thousand years ago by distributing chocolate eggs to the children of people we dislike. "
― Kyril Bonfiglioli , Something Nasty in the Woodshed (Charlie Mortdecai, #3)
26 " Have you ever been a member of the Communist or Anarchist parties, Mr Mortdecai?’ ‘Good Lord no!’ I cried gaily, ‘filthy capitalist, me. Grind the workers’ faces, I say.’ ‘When you were at school?’ he prompted gently. ‘Oh. Well, yes, I think I did take the Red side in the debating society at school once or twice. But in the Lower Sixth we all got either religion or Communism – it goes with acne you know. Vanishes as soon as you have proper sexual intercourse. "
27 " We know that death is the only end of art. A chap who has gone to all the trouble of strangling his wife is entitled to his moment of splendour on the gallows – it is a crime to make him sew mailbags like a common thief. "
28 " When depressed, go and find someone to salute you. "