Top 100 Milligan Quotes
#1. Kate laid her hand against his cheek. "Why do you keep doing this? Why do you keep getting hurt?"
"Bad habit," Milligan mumbled.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#2. Go on, Kate. I don't want to have fallen four stories for nothing. - Milligan
Trenton Lee Stewart
#3. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.
Spike Milligan
#4. Milligan! Come and tell us why you're so dreadfully glum!" ~ Constance, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#5. When the time comes to face McCracken, I don't want you anywhere near."
"I agree with Milligan!" Sticky whispered.
Milligan winked at him and quickly ushered the children back to the double doors.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#6. For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Charlie Watts
#7. Come, come, come? I'm not asking for hundreds of pounds, just a little to start with. Will someone say ten shillings?'
'I can say it, Father' said Milligan, 'but I haven't got it.'
'I've got it,' thought Dr Goldstein, 'but I'm not going to say it.
Spike Milligan
#8. Maybe you can talk to donkeys, too," Dr. Milligan smiles. Emma nods. "I can sometimes Galen can be a jackass."
"That hurts my feelings, Emma," Galen says, trying to look hurt.
Anna Banks
#9. Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Spike Milligan
#10. The penguins love Emma. They waddle around, dive in and out of their pool, call out to her. She laughs. "They sound like donkeys!"
"Maybe you can talk to donkeys, too," Dr. Milligan smiles.
Emma nods. "I can. Sometimes Galen can be a jackass.
Anna Banks
#11. Professor Milligan will now play his tree! The composition is in A Minor, the tree is in A garden.
Spike Milligan
#12. Patience, thought Milligan, that word was invented by dull buggers who couldn't think quick enough.
Spike Milligan
#14. Author, author, did you write these legs?( The Milligan- Puckoon
Spike Milligan
#15. I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
Peter Capaldi
#16. Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society
Trenton Lee Stewart
#18. There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in,
But they're ever so small
That's why rain is thin.
Spike Milligan
#19. As our characters in our 'X-FORCE' began to push at the boundaries of what 'X-FORCE' was, it made perfect story sense for the team to change their name.
Peter Milligan
#20. Any team that has Shade as their leader is bound to have a pretty directionless quality. But when Cyborg asks Shade to gather the Secret Seven together and help him stop the war between Wonder Woman and Aquaman, Shade agrees - albeit reluctantly.
Peter Milligan
#21. Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
Spike Milligan
#22. Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and ... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.
Peter Milligan
#23. Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.
Spike Milligan
#24. Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
Spike Milligan
#25. In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.
Spike Milligan
#26. The thing about Canadian women is that they seem less likely to bring up that they're Canadian. You here less about Canadian actresses than actors, I don't know why.
Dustin Milligan
#27. We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.
Spike Milligan
#28. Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.
Spike Milligan
#29. A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior
But one operation
Revised the situation
And now he's Mother Superior
Spike Milligan
#31. My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan
#32. Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
Dustin Milligan
#33. Earlier today I had sex with a monkey and then roasted and ate it with a glass of choir boys' piss. I like to get in the mood.
Peter Milligan
#34. General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.
Spike Milligan
#35. In choosing a mate, don't pick the tallest and most handsome or the most beautiful. Don't choose one just because that person raises your physical passions. Look for the person who is good from within, the one with substance and worth.
Helen Quist Milligan
#36. What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?"
A Bongaloo, Son," said I,
Is a tall bag of cheese
Plus a Chinaman's knees
And the leg of a nanny goat's eye
Spike Milligan
#37. Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light
Spike Milligan
#38. My sister Laura's bigger than me
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside.
Spike Milligan
#39. I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British
Peter Milligan
#40. 'Red Lanterns' is obviously about rage, but more it's about how rage affects people - alien and human. I'll be getting into the characters of some of those insane Red Lanterns whom we've generally only seen spitting vomit in the background.
Peter Milligan
#41. Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.
Peter Milligan
#43. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
#45. 'Greek Street' is a very strange beast. I think of it as 'The Long Good Friday' meets 'Agamemnon.' A way of using those fantastically rich stories from Greek tragedy to take a look at our world and to explore some of the things I think about this world.
Peter Milligan
#46. A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan
#49. It's like Canada is the little brother to the United States and one day they are going to show the world they're just as cool as their successful big brother.
Dustin Milligan
#50. If I could write words
Like leaves on an autumn forest floor,
What a bonfire my letters would make.
If I could speak words of water,
You would drown when I said
I love you.
Spike Milligan
#53. Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan
#54. A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
Spike Milligan
#55. Busty' Roberts had joined the Royal Artillery in 1914 and since then had steadily risen to the rank of Gunner. Now the crunch: someone with a perverted sense of humour made him a Lance Bombardier. Roberts went insane with power. The war now consisted of two people, him and Hitler.
Spike Milligan
#56. Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
#57. After Puckoon I swore I'd never write another book. This is it
Spike Milligan
#58. 'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.
Peter Milligan
#59. I've always been interested in the Greek tragedies. A few years back, I re-read a translation of the 'The Oresteia,' and that stayed with me, and slowly this idea of using some of those old legends and plays to tell a new story about modern urban life began to form.
Peter Milligan
#60. Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
Spike Milligan
#62. Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
Spike Milligan
#63. I'm continuing to write and love 'Hellblazer.' Also, I'm writing a 'Flashpoint' mini-series ' with art by George Perez - which features Shade the Changing Man and Enchantress.
Peter Milligan
#65. For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.
Spike Milligan
#66. The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson.
Spike Milligan
#68. I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
Spike Milligan
#69. Are you going to come quietly, or do I have to use earplugs?
Spike Milligan
#70. My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan
#71. It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't.
Spike Milligan
#72. One thing we never did with 'Bad Company' was talk down to our reader. And we certainly don't do that with the new story, 'Bad Company, First Casualties.'
Peter Milligan
#73. The width of neck and shoulder suggested a rugby player, the broken nose confirmed it. Which shows just how wrong you can be as he never played the game in his life.
Spike Milligan
#74. A sure cure for seasickness is to stand underneath a tree.
Spike Milligan
#75. If a robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage,
How feels heaven when
Dies the billionth battery hen?
Spike Milligan
#76. R.I.P.
Tom Conlon O'Rourke.
Not Dead, just Sleeping.
Spike Milligan
#77. But the drugs don't say no. Drugs don't send you to your room without supper. They're the careless parent that condones everything.
Nick Milligan
#78. All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Spike Milligan
#79. I'm a hero wid coward's legs, I'm a hero from the waist up.
Spike Milligan
#80. What 'Flashpoint' does is examine the inherent inconsistencies in Shade's past and attempt to explain it and give it some logic.
Peter Milligan
#81. The erotic drive is the great energy that moves through all evolution.
What about love? Where does that fit in?
Love's simply the handmaiden of the great energy, and an excuse to write suspect poetry.
Peter Milligan
#83. When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.
Mike Milligan
#84. To Harry Secombe: I hope you die first as I don't want you singing at my funeral.
Spike Milligan
#85. I love Tike Alicar, The Anarchist. But I love Edie Sawyer, U-Go Girl, too. I was a little in love with her.
Peter Milligan
#89. The American Scream is the personification of the plague of madness sweeping the states. Only he's real
Peter Milligan
#90. If I don't eat soon, I'll die of hunger; and if I die, I won't eat soon.
Spike Milligan
#91. Ever since I was a little kid, I always dreamed of being a Big City kid, because I grew up in a very small town up north in Canada. I have to say I just love the city lights at night.
Dustin Milligan
#92. The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.
Spike Milligan
#93. I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Spike Milligan
#94. Aristocrats have heirs, the poor have children, and the rest keep dogs.
Spike Milligan
#97. For DC, I'm working on the new 'Red Lanterns' and 'JLA Dark.' Both of these are very different books, which is great for me. I've heard 'JLA Dark' described as a team of people with supernatural powers - but that's only half the story.
Peter Milligan
#98. Over at Marvel, I have a five-part series coming out very soon. The books or chapters will appear weekly. It's called '5 Ronin' and features some iconic Marvel heroes as you've never seen them.
Peter Milligan
#100. Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
Spike Milligan
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