Fawlty Towers Basil Quotes

#1. Don't lie!' 'Tell the truth!' are words which we must never say to another person in so far as we consider him our equal.

Milan Kundera

#2. Cruelty is cheap, easy, and rampant. It's also chicken-shit. Especially when you attack and criticize anonymously - like technology allows so many people to do these days.

Brene Brown

#3. The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less.

T. S. Eliot

#4. We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.

John F. Lehman Jr.

#5. If you are not the member of any religion, it means that you are the member of truth!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.

Maria Montessori

#7. People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Frederick Lenz

#8. We are beaten, we will make no bones about it; but we are not too badly beaten still to fight.

James Larkin

#9. We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

Samuel Johnson

#10. Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig

#11. One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention
a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.

Ella J. Fraser

#12. To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

Bertrand Russell