Top 32 Peter Cook Quotes
#1. I've learned from my mistakes and I'm sure I can repeat them exactly." - Peter Cook
Tracy Schorn
#2. Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.
Dudley Moore
#3. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore were friends and the last people I expected would predecease me. They were, in a sense, casualties of fame.
Barry Humphries
#4. I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)
Peter Cook
#5. The English kill their meat twice: once when they slaughter it and once when they cook it.
Peter Mayle
#6. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
Peter Cook
#7. We ended up eating toasted pieces of soap. Yep. Mom will never let us cook again. In
Peter Patrick
#8. I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly
Peter Cook
#9. I am blind
but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' ... I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.
Peter Cook
#10. Everything I've ever told you, including this, is a lie.
Peter Cook
#11. I didn't know dirty words could be done that artfully.
Peter Cook
#12. Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.
Peter Cook
#13. I was a greasy short-order cook. I just liked being greasy! That was a real departure for me.
Peter Jacobson
#14. I've always worked a bit like a cook in a big restaurant, where you've got lots and lots of things laid out and you go and look into one cauldron and you look into the other and you see what's coming to the boil.
Peter Brook
#15. Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.
Peter Cook
#16. You realize that suicide's a criminal offense - In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.
Peter Cook
#17. I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.
Peter Cook
#18. So what did you bring? Lip gloss and a hairbrush?"
Smirking, she unpacked the sandwiches Mort's cook had made for her, along with an ample slice of chocolate cake. "You owe me an apology."
"Omigod, it's a feast! Okay, you're forgiven.
Jana Oliver
#19. I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.
Peter Cook
#21. Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony.
Peter Cook
#22. The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.
Peter Cook
#23. What about me, Peter?" "You can cook. You can clean. You can be waiting here for me when I get home. I'd think that would be enough." "Well, it's not!
Barbara Delinsky
#24. I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.
Peter Cook
#25. One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.
Peter Cook
#26. I met a man at a party. He said "I'm writing a novel" I said "Oh really? Neither am I.
Peter Cook
#27. The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.
Peter Cook
#28. I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
Peter Cook
#29. As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
Peter Cook
#30. All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what's more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with judges. *
Peter Cook
#31. We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
Peter Cook
#32. If there's one thing I can't bear, it's when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can't bear that.
Peter Cook
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