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

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

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

"Princess: I am always disappointed with mountains. There are no mountains in the world as high as I could wish. Adria…"

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

"On we read, confusing the characters with the incidents and neglecting the outcome, but tickled by the images and the…"

"He had something of the air, if one can imagine such a combination, of a witty and decadent Red Indian."

"It is the peculiar temper of Firbank's humour which divides him from the nineties. His raw material, allowing for the…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"