Basil Fawlty Quotes

#1. Illy [Ray Illingworth] had the man-management skills of Basil Fawlty

Darren Gough

#2. Basil Fawlty was an easy character for me. For some reason, portraying a mean uptight incompetent bully comes naturally to me.

John Cleese

#3. Whose fault is it, then? Dennis Compton's (Basil Fawlty)

John Cleese

#4. She wakes in a puddle of sunlight.
Her hands asleep beside her.
Her hair draped on the lawn
like a mantle of cloth.

Roman Payne

#5. People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to.

Jerry Seinfeld

#6. I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself.

Martin Scorsese

#7. Building friendships with people from dissimilar backgrounds and diverse perspectives will make you wiser and more creative.

Rick Warren

#8. Let's say I'm not feeling well, and somebody would say to me, 'Just do an easy show, just go out and do a light ... ' - I can't! I cannot do that kind of a show. I have to still put 150 percent into it, and it's funny: it's so healing to do that.

Gene Pitney

#9. Call on me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver, and thou shalt glorify me.

Daniel Defoe

#10. There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

Mike Tyson

#11. If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

Lucy Corin

#12. It's very dangerous to have someone like you, because one day he'll find that you are not the person he thought you were.

Carrie Fisher

#13. I wondered whether I could find a Great Perhaps here at all or whether I had made a grand miscalculation.

John Green

#14. I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Dexter Fletcher

#15. They think they're runnin' the country but all they're doin' is writin' the reports." From Homesteader; Finding Sharon by D.M. McGowan

D. M. McGowan

#16. I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy, ambitious type of person anyway.

Michael Learned

#17. The lucky people that end up doing what they love even find out somethings that they don't love it as much as they thought.

E. A. Davis

#18. Every moment of every day, your mind chooses whether you focus on the angelic or the demonic, on your life's blessings or your tragedies, on the flashes of insight or the reminders of trouble.

Catherine Carrigan