# Don't Point That Thing at Me

- Author: [Kyril Bonfiglioli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli/dont-point-that-thing-at-me

## Quotes

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

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> The coffee having arrived (how hard it is to write without the ablative absolute!) we guzzled genteelly for a while...

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> "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."
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> "I say, Charlie, really, what a filthy rotten idea; I mean, think of my wife."
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> "I never think of policemen's wives, their beauty maddens me like wine."

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> He had made one mistake in an otherwise flawless performance: he hadn't told me his name. Have you ever exchanged three words with an American without being told his name?

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> "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".

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> 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.

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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.

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> It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

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> I could almost hear him scrabbling about in his brain for a deft, light opening. His Oscar Wilde touch. Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

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> Ten minutes later I was in an enormous taxi-cab, an air-conditioned one, hired for the day for fifty dollars; it seems an awful lot, I know, but money's worth awfully little over there, you'd be surprised. It's because there's so much of it, you see.

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