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Quotes from British Comedies


Black Adder

I don't care if he's been rogering the Duke of York with a prize-winning leek! He shot my pigeon!


Just because I give multiple orgasms to furniture merely by sitting on it...


Chef

Chef [explaining why he won't dance]:
All of my talent went into my hands. My feet are just there to keep my legs from fraying at the ends.


Good Neighbors

Margo:
I think you should see a doctor, Jerry. I think you're in grave danger of becoming a pervert.


Margo:
And I wish them well. And I hope it's the total disaster it deserves to be.


Margo:
Don't get like Tom, Barbara, please.


Margo:
There is a maggot in English society, and that maggot is Socialism. I do not intend to suffer from it.


Margo:
See here, Tom. If anyone's going to call Jerry a mess in this house, it is going to be me.

Margo:
If one is to get fit, one is to get fit properly.


Margo:
You're hardly one to talk, Tom. Your frame borders on the corpulent.


Keeping up Appearances

Hyacinth, to Richard as he is choking:

Richard, I will not *have* you turning that color in front of Mrs. Lennox.


May to December

Zoe, muttering:
I'm a solicitor's wife. I will not knee him in the groin until the guests have left.


Your granddaughter asked me what Zoe was. I didn't know what to tell her.

Can't you pronounce concubine?


We played 5 games of chess!

Did you thrash her?

No, that's Thursdays.


Do you think I don't know that we won't grow old together?


To the Manor Borne

England for the English as we used to say about India.

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