Average Quote by Ronald Firbank

When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn…

— Elizabeth I

Eunuch: What you do when the doorbell is out of order

— Nikhil Saluja

When Holy Church occasionally hinted that she still considered her authority to be supreme over all nations and superior to the authority of states,…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

“Swirling furiously among the stairs and corridors of her exquisite home like a small and angry white bat Sybilla, Dowager Lady Culter, was not…

— Dorothy Dunnett

Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

— Michael R. Burch

How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?

— Samuel Beckett

The masters thought they were loved until one day one of their favorites farted loudly while serving dinner and the next day was gone.…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“As the eyes of the assembled Folk fell upon me, I realized that I had forgotten to change back into my queenly attire. I…

— Heather Fawcett

I put away my brushes; resolutely crucified my divine gift, and while it hung writhing on the cross, spent my best years and powers…

— Jane Swisshelm

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites…

— Maya Angelou

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be…

— George A. Romero

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to…

— Sylvia Plath