David Brent Quotes

#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. If David Brent is the best thing that I ever come up with, then so be it. What are you supposed to do, time the best thing you do for just before you die?

Ricky Gervais

#3. On a daily basis, you're working with Steve Carell; you're not working with Ricky Gervais. You try a line, and you can't be writing for David Brent. You have to be writing for Michael Scott because Steve is Michael Scott.

Greg Daniels

#4. Anything you throw yourself into, you better get yourself out of.

Keith Richards

#5. the English drinking their 'alf and 'alf out of pewter mugs, the French drinking their claret out of very thin glasses, while our Russian shipmates and ourselves drank something harder out of thick glasses which were very small at the bottom.

Charles Erskine

#6. You think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's only some bugger with a torch bringing you more work.

David Brent

#7. The thought then loses its power over you and quickly subsides, because you are no longer energizing the mind through identification with it. This

Eckhart Tolle

#8. He made a noise she recognized, one that meant he was organizing whatever multidimensional information lattices inhabited his mental space into linear strings amenable to transmission through that inadequate medium, language.

Elizabeth Bear

#9. I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

Ann Louise Gittleman

#10. If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation.

David Brent

#11. I love 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' That was like the only black book we read in high school.

Junot Diaz

#12. If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried.

David Brent

#13. Nicknames, are bad...names.

David Brent

#14. So my motto would be, 'Be careful,'cause there's always someone ready to step into your shoes ... and do your job better ... than you ... do it.

David Brent

#15. If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.

David Brent

#16. Eagles may soar high, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

David Brent

#17. I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.

Jamie Sives

#18. The definition of fascism is The marriage of corporation and state

Benito Mussolini

#19. Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

Isaac

#20. If everything becomes weird, then I'm normal, right ?"
~Vincent Nightray

Jun Mochizuki

#21. I will say that as I get older and calmer and quieter in my own self, the one quality in a woman that I find more and more attractive is kindness. A sense of adventure and humor is important too, but I truly find kindness and consideration for others to be the most attractive thing in anyone.

Colin Farrell