Eric Sykes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.

  • I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

  • There are bullfighters who do it just for the money-they are worthless [said Hemingway]. The only one who matters is the bullfighter who feels it, so that if he did it for nothing, he would do it just as well. Same holds true for damn near everyone.

  • Lies kill love, it's been said. Well, what about frankness, then.

  • She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

  • I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  • Talk and tea is his specialty," said Giles. "He has about five cups of tea a day. But he works splendidly when we are looking.

  • I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.

  • What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

  • When I look at a digitally acquired and projected image, it looks inferior against an original negative anamorphic print or an IMAX one.