# Quote — Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me

> 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.

- Author: [Kyril Bonfiglioli](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli.md)
- Book: [Don't Point That Thing at Me](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kyril-bonfiglioli/dont-point-that-thing-at-me.md)
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> 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."
>
> "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."

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