# Quote — Kyril Bonfiglioli, After You with the Pistol

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

- Author: [Kyril Bonfiglioli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli.md)
- Book: [After You with the Pistol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli/after-you-with-the-pistol.md)
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> 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.

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> "You would now be an enemy, in the third class, of my own organization."
>
> "Only third class?" I asked in the indignant tones which Queen Victoria surely used when she received the Abyssinian Order of Chastity, Second Class.

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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.

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