Captain Mainwaring Sayings

#1. Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

A.A. Gill

#2. I hope to see an integrated solution created to deal with both the local pollution problem and the global climate change problem.

Ma Jun

#3. He seemed to have a story no one had bothered to discover

Gail Tsukiyama

#4. You are my son, then, I'll tell you' and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.

Emily Bronte

#5. Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

Leigh Hunt

#6. If you're doing a family movie, you don't want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

Joe Dante

#7. The night's chilly breath tickles up my neck and finds my ear, whispering secrets only the wind knows.

Libba Bray

#8. The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

Antony Beevor

#9. The key to pitching is to have the ability to throw a strike when they're taking and throw a ball when the hitter is swinging.

Greg Maddux

#10. Shared secrets have way of creating bonds

Amish Tripathi