Quirke Quotes

#1. Captain Quirke looked around the Watch room with the air of one who was doing the scenery a favour by looking at it.

Terry Pratchett

#2. My acting career began when I walked into a drama school class run by Anna Scher in Islington. Anna discovered a lot of people: Linda Robson, Pauline Quirke, Gary and Martin Kemp, and Dexter Fletcher were among my contemporaries.

Phil Daniels

#3. Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

Michael Ian Black

#4. Nina rested her chin atop Inej's silky hair. "Zoya used to say that fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return." (p188)

Leigh Bardugo

#5. True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking ... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.

Ellen DeGeneres

#7. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Rumi

#8. Do I know my lines? As I'm getting older, they're getting harder to learn. The old brain cells are deteriorating.

Pauline Quirke

#9. I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

Linda Evans

#10. If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all! A quote from Thumper in Bambi.

G.J. Griffiths

#11. I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. I'm not a fan of maggots. I could never do that I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here!

Pauline Quirke

#14. I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

Leonard Susskind

#15. I once worked in a pub. I couldn't add up to save my life, but I could pull the pints.

Pauline Quirke

#16. I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.

Pauline Quirke

#17. It doesn't take much to say please or thank you.

Pauline Quirke

#18. There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

Michael Ondaatje

#19. It would be interesting to go to Buckingham Palace. I'd just like to see what goes on - I'm not bothered about hearing any political chat.

Pauline Quirke

#20. People think they know me from somewhere, and then I open my mouth and they realise it's me from Birds Of A Feather.

Pauline Quirke

#21. I don't think I spoil my kids, I'm fairly responsible.

Pauline Quirke