Instalment Quotes

"Now, Halford, I bid you adieu for the present. This is the first instalment of my debt. If the coin suits you, tell me so, and I'll send you the rest of my leisure: if you would rather remain my creditor than stuff your purse with such ungainly heavy pieces — tell me still, and I'll pardon your bad taste, and willingly keep the treasure to myself."

More Instalment Quotes

An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last instalment missing.

Quentin Crisp

— 1968 The Naked Civil Servant, ch.29.

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