Favourite quotes.

[Bill Walker]

I just heard this one whilst watching the TV series Mad Men, I thought it was quite good I've no idea who it's attributed to but was used in a meeting between executives on the show.

"The young know nothing.... especially that they are young "

 

[Meatbag]

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

 

[RadcliffeRick]

I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill (among many great quoted from him)

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

The Parson in Kind Hearts and Coronets:-

I always say that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer, without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

 

[jonah62]

“Oh, fuck off Warren. Mincing around like some Vaseline arsed queen!”
Myles
That’s Life

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

"I've had a few medical problems this year. I'm now so old, my pussy is haunted".

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Some of my favourites from Oscar

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken

I can resist everything except temptation.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Not in my lifetime.
Can't recall who said it

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

If you can keep your head, whilst all around are losing theirs...


...you haven't quite grasped the seriousness of the situation.