Three More Novels: Vainglory, Inclinations, Caprice
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The Princess Zoubaroff, Act I, sc. iv (1920), cited from Steven Moore (ed.) Complete Plays (Normal, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 1994) p. 55.
“Oh! help me, heaven," she prayed, "to be decorative and to do right!”
The Flower Beneath the Foot (1923), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 516.
“I suppose when there's no more room for another crow's-foot, one attains a sort of peace?”
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Valmouth (1918), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 448.
“There was a pause – just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.”
Vainglory (1915), cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 117.
“The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.”
Vainglory, cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 149.
“I remember the average curate at home as something between a eunuch and a snigger.”
The Flower Beneath the Foot, cited from The Complete Ronald Firbank (London: Duckworth, 1961) p. 534.
E. M. Forster, "Ronald Firbank", in Abinger Harvest (1936; London: Edward Arnold, 1961) p. 139.
