Kyril Bonfiglioli: Likeness

Kyril Bonfiglioli was British art dealer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“Somewhere in the trash he reads Martland has read that heavy men walk with surprising lightness and grace; as a result he trips about like a portly elf hoping to be picked up by a leprechaun.”

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 1.

Men , Hope , Light , Reading

“Sleep slunk up like a black panther and sank its kindly fangs into what remained of the Mortdecai brain.”

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 17.

Sleep

“No no, Jock…we're going to push him out of a window. Your bedroom window, I think. Yes, and we'll undress him first and say that he was making advances to you and jumped out of the window in a frenzy of thwarted love."
"I say, Charlie, really, what a filthy rotten idea; I mean, think of my wife."
"I never think of policemen's wives, their beauty maddens me like wine.”

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972), Ch. 3.

Love , Beauty , Idea , Thinking

“I don't much care about tea-drinking in the afternoon; in the morning the stuff Jock brings to me in bed is like that Nepenthe which the wife of Thone gave to Jove-born Helena, but in the p. m. it always makes me think of Ganges mud in which crocodiles have been coupling.”

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 5.

Drink , Thinking , Tea

“The cold pork in the fridge was wilting at the edges; it and I exchanged looks of mutual contempt, like two women wearing the same hat in the Royal Enclosure at Ascot.”

Kyril Bonfiglioli

Source: The Mortdecai Trilogy, After You With The Pistol (1979), Ch. 7.

Women