Kyril bonfiglioli quotes about family

Cyril Emmanuel George Bonfiglioli (29 May1928 – 3 March1985) was an English art-dealer, science fiction editor, champion swordsman, and comic novelist.

In his characteristic gallows humour, Kyril has been known to quote ' The honest perish while the mischievous survive'.

In his characteristic gallows humour, Kyril has been known to quote ' The honest perish while the mischievous survive'.

We begin with what appears to be a family – mother Sarah, father John, daughter Deborah (also known as Dee) and baby Petey.

Kind of a warm, fuzzy and yet eccentric old uncle in the family is the first image to spring into your mind but Mr.C is nobody's uncle.

The family is hilarious and I love how the story is A British author -dead now- was Kyril Bonfiglioli who wrote three Mortdecai novels.

Here there's also controversy, as editor Kyril Bonfiglioli is stepping down.

His name, which reflects his English, Italian and Slovene descent, was revised to Kyril Bonfiglioli. He claimed to be loved and respected by all who knew him slightly.

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The Mortdecai Trilogy

Published out of chronological order

Don't Point That Thing At Me (1972)

The title of the first US edition was Mortdecai’s Endgame

• 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.

• I could almost hear him scrabbling about in his brain for a deft, light opening. His Oscar Wilde touch.
  Often, you come across something in a book that you want to mark, to remember.

  Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

• "No no, Jock…we're going to push him out of a window. Your bedroom window, I think. Yes, and we'll undress hi