“Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“Author? Author? Did you write these legs?'
'Yes."
'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
“Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings?'
'I can say it, Father' said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it.'
'I've got it,' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.”
― Spike Milligan, quote from Puckoon
Spike Milligan
Born place: in Ahmednagar, India
Born date April 16, 1918
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“There is nothing more attractive than a nice smile”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from King Henry IV, Part 1
“I felt something swell in me then. It wasn't desparate, or triumphant, or any of the things I was used to feeling around men. This was quiet and thrilling, and new. It felt like it might spill out from me, and fill whole rooms.
It felt like gladness.”
― Megan Crane, quote from Frenemies
“As soon as you were born you were captured by fresh air that you screamed against the minute you came out. Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck, and then you were hooked up by the arse with a wife.”
― Alan Sillitoe, quote from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
“It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up.”
― Suketu Mehta, quote from Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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