CatchphrasesAnd now for something completely different.
(John Cleese/Eric Idle, Monty Python) Nice to see you, to see you, nice! (Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game) Good game, good game! (Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game) Didn't he/she do well? (Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game) Tell 'em about the honey, Mummy. (Honey Monster, Sugar Puffs TV ad) What do you think of the show so far? Rubbish! (Eric Morecambe) I'm free! (Mr Humphries, from Are You Being Served?) So it's 'Goodnight' from me. And it's 'Goodnight' from him. Goodnight! (The Two Ronnies) Ooh, Betty. (Frank Spencer, from Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em) Shut that door. (Larry Grayson) What a gay day! (Larry Grayson) Seems like a nice boy. (Larry Grayson) Look at the muck on here. (Larry Grayson) Who loves ya, baby? (Theo Kojak, from Kojak) What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis? (Arnold Jackson, from Diff'rent Strokes) Come on down! (from The Price is Right) I didn't get where I am today by... (John Barron as C.J., from The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin) I'll have a half. (Keith Marsh as Jacko, from Love Thy Neighbour) I 'ate you, Butler! (Stephen Lewis as Blakey, from On the Buses) I've started so I'll finish. (Magnus Magnusson, from Mastermind) Has he been? (from Nearest & Dearest - usually by Hylda Baker) |
QuotesLove means never having to say you're sorry.
(Ali MacGraw, from Love Story, 1970) I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. (Marlon Brando, from The Godfather, 1972) A man's got to know his limitations. (Clint Eastwood from Magnum Force, 1973) I don't think there will be a woman prime minister in my lifetime. (Margaret Thatcher, 1973) Well, I screwed it up real good, didn't I? (President Richard Nixon on the Watergate Scandal, 1974) Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. (Al Pacino, from The Godfather II, 1974) I was quite sure the case would be virtually wrapped up in one day. (Roy Ranson, Detective, Lord Lucan murder case, 1974) When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble. (Muhammad Ali) They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman. (Ted Heath on Margaret Thatcher's election to the leadership of the Tory Party, 1975) In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome. (Ted Heath, 1975) I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases, you know, and blind people, crippled. I don't know how they get through life. It's amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you're miserable, because that's very lucky, to be miserable. (Woody Allen, from Annie Hall, 1977) A relationship, I think, is like a shark. You know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark. (Woody Allen, from Annie Hall, 1977) You've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk? (Clint Eastwood, from Dirty Harry, 1971) You talkin' to me? (Robert de Niro, from Taxi Driver, 1976) May the Force be With You. (from Star Wars, 1977) I love the smell of napalm in the morning. (Robert Duvall, from Apocalypse Now, 1979) He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy. (Terry Jones, from Monty Python's Life of Brian, 1979) I couldn't believe it of him because he had behaved so normally at home. (Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper) Restraint? Why are you so concerned with saving their lives? The whole idea is to kill the bastards. At the end of the war if there are two Americans and one Russian left alive, we win. (General Thomas Power, Commander of US Strategic Air Command, quoted during the Cold War) |