"[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees."

-- Penelope Gilliatt

#Bees Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“This magistrate is not the king. The people are the king.”
“The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.”
“The only place Avant Garde looks good is in the words Avant Garde.”
“[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.”
“I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.”
“Love and only love will endure. Hate is everything you think it is. Love and only love will break it down.”
“Rodgers & Hammerstein shows have a purity of unironic emotion that imprints itself upon people's hearts. They seem to touch our feelings so effortlessly. They have a scope and ambition that's missing from many musicals now.”
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.”

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