Joyce: Have we met?
Spike: Um... You hit me with an axe one time. Remember, uh, 'Get the hell away from my daughter'?

Source:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Becoming Part 2

Jenny: You kids really dig the library, don't you?
Buffy: We're literary.
Xander: To read makes our speaking English good.

Source:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
I, Robot . . . You, Jane

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, I must protest in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a ( Read more... )

Sir Humphrey: Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century - politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon.

Source:
Yes, Prime Minister
A Victory For Democracy

I thought it was time for a non-YPM quote.

Queen Elizabeth I:
[Speaking of Edmund:] Well then he's vanished. Simply vanished.

Lord Percy Percy:
Like an old oak table.

Queen Elizabeth I:
Vanished, Lord Percy, not varnished.

Source:
Blackadder II
Chains

And yet another one from Yes, Prime Minister.

Sir Humphrey: Unfortunately, although the answer was indeed clear, simple, and straightforward, there is some difficulty in justifiably assigning to it the fourth of the epithets you applied to the statement, inasmuch as the precise correlation between the information you communicated and the facts, ( Read more... )

And another one from Yes, Prime Minister.

Bernard: So you want me to falsify the minutes?

Sir Humphrey: I want nothing of the sort! It's up to you Bernard; what do you want?

Bernard: I want to have a clear conscience.

Sir Humphrey: A clear conscience.

Bernard: Yes.

Sir Humphrey: When did you acquire this taste for luxuries?

Source:Yes, ( Read more... )

This quote is from a book rather than a actual 'flesh and blood' person.

Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh: We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

Source:
Shroud for a Nightingale - P. D. James

This week's quote is another homage. This time to Nicholas Parsons who died today aged 96.

Nicholas Parsons: Without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Source:
Just a Minute- Radio 4

Another quote from Yes, Prime Minister in homage to Derek Fowlds. It is from one of my favourite YPM episodes.

Bernard Woolley: No, we can't have alphabetical seating in the Abbey. You'd have Iraq and Iran next to each other. Plus Israel and Jordan all sitting in the same pew. We'd be in danger of starting World War III. I know Ireland begins with ( Read more... )