Ronnie Barker Quotes

#1. Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

John Major

#2. Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh

Michael Palin

#3. He was so good at everything he did. You can't call Ronnie Barker a comedian. He was an actor, and a great writer.

Bruce Forsyth

#4. I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.

Ronnie Corbett

#5. I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from.

John Cleese

#6. Working with Ronnie Barker was always a joy and were without doubt some of the best years of my career

David Jason

#7. But the rain gods went away. They ain't coming back, either." "How do you know that?" "They got no reason to. We don't believe in them no more.

James Lee Burke

#8. We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

Ronnie Barker

#9. Don't just crit their siticising.

Ronnie Barker

#10. I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

Ronnie Barker

#11. The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

Ronnie Barker

#12. In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Ronnie Barker

#13. There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

Ronnie Barker

#14. In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing.

Ronnie Barker

#15. It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Ronnie Barker

#16. To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Ronnie Barker

#17. To entrust the government with the power of determining the education which our children receive is entrusting our servant with the power to be our master.

David Nasaw

#18. Is there such a thing as a perfect match?"

"If one strives for perfection in and itself, then, no. But if one strives only to find the piece that compliments, that stands nobly alone, yet is made better with companionship, then yes, I believe a match is possible.

April White

#19. It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all.

Emily M. Danforth

#20. When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

Samuel Butler

#21. But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Ronnie Barker

#22. The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Ronnie Barker

#23. To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Ronnie Barker

#24. Snake my way into her bed? You dont' know your roomate well do you? She jumped me and rode me til I was cross-eyed!

~Jack

Ann Mayburn

#25. Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'

Ronnie Barker

#26. If I was as rich as Rockefeller I'd be richer than Rockefeller, because I'd do a bit of window cleaning on the side.

Ronnie Barker

#27. A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Henry Rollins

#28. Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

Ronnie Barker