Baldrick Quotes

#1. Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.)
My magnificent octopus.

Richard Curtis

#2. So that's when I came up with the most ridiculous plan since I'd decided to take a witness statement from a ghost. It was a plan so stupid that even Baldrick would have rejected it out of hand.

Ben Aaronovitch

#3. Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?
Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Richard Curtis

#4. Baldrick, we are about as similar as two ... dis-similar things in a pod!

Richard Curtis

#5. The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.

Mike McCue

#6. You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.

Hannah Arendt

#7. Right. The dance. I reply with all the whit of a pencil. Now who's rocking the eye avoidance? That would be me.

Amy Lunderman

#8. Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

Grant Morrison

#9. You hear people saying, 'Oh I'm so tired, I've had enough of Cannes.' How can you have enough of Cannes? It's just the best place to be, like a fairytale.

Marjane Satrapi

#10. Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.

Thomas Carlyle

#11. So I fight. I fight the only way I know, with thinking of Ky, even thought the pain of missing him is so strong I can hardly stand it ... I think of him, I think of him, I think of him.

Ally Condie

#12. No government, no organisation, no citizen can afford to be less than vigilant in combating bigotry, intolerance and hatred. And frankly, our way of life depends on that vigilance.

Barry O'Farrell

#13. Sneaked another glance at myself in the mirror. For the first time, I did not see a dishwasher.

Jean Kwok

#14. Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#15. I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.

Tom Hicks

#16. Some people make stuff; other people have to buy it. And when we gave up making stuff, starting in the 1980s, we were left with the unique role of buying ... we shopped till we dropped, all right, face down on the floor.

Barbara Ehrenreich