Blackadder Goes Quotes

#1. A beer doesn't have to be difficult to acquire, but damned if that doesn't make everything taste better.

Patrick Dawson

#2. Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

Mathew Baynton

#3. I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure.

David Mandel

#4. The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

Richard E. Besser

#5. It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking] ... They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were ... more civilized than the finely bred..for there is no demographic that has a sharper instinct for empathy than the downtrodden.

Ken Ilgunas

#6. I have an idea," I said.
"This better not be a cunning plan," said Leslie.
Nightingale looked blank, but at least it got a chuckle from Dr Walid.

Ben Aaronovitch

#7. 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

#8. If you have done nothing to feel embarrassed about, don't feel embarrassed. I know this is a tough concept, but it can be mastered.

Melody Beattie

#9. I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.

Natalie Dormer

#10. I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all.

Rowan Atkinson

#11. Randolph Henry Ash's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt, a meditation on the myths of resurrection. Lord Leighton had painted her, distraught and floating, a golden figure in a tunnel of darkness. Blackadder

A.S. Byatt

#12. In any just world, I should have been able to kick the front room door open, like Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, and shout "OH YEAH. THAT HYMEN'S GONE. DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT," and then run round the room, getting high fives from my parents and siblings.

Caitlin Moran

#13. What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

William Morris

#14. I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

Antony Beevor

#15. They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths. As it creaked up, Blackadder said, 'That's not the worst thing a human being can do, take himself seriously.

A.S. Byatt