Blackadder 2 Quotes & Sayings

I'm not in business to make money for the other guy. I'm in business to make money for myself. — Sheldon Adelson

Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents. — Mathew Baynton

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?
Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it! — Richard Curtis

I was a Fry & Laurie fan, I was a Blackadder fan, I was a House fan and he [ Hugh Laurie]s a pleasure. — David Mandel

Randolph Henry Ash's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt, a meditation on the myths of resurrection. Lord Leighton had painted her, distraught and floating, a golden figure in a tunnel of darkness. Blackadder — A.S. Byatt

I would return to the Blackadder character if the opportunity came up. I have no qualms about that at all. — Rowan Atkinson

In any just world, I should have been able to kick the front room door open, like Lord Flashheart in Blackadder, and shout "OH YEAH. THAT HYMEN'S GONE. DON'T YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT," and then run round the room, getting high fives from my parents and siblings. — Caitlin Moran

Sometimes I wonder how you can stand being just a dog ... "
"You play with the cards you're dealt ... Whatever that means. — Charles M. Schulz

Like a kite, carried by the wind, he followed her into the fluffy white clouds of her imagination. He didn't think her silly for living in the sky, but rather, he marveled at the wondrous life she had created on the outskirts of reality. He knew her love would elevate him to new emotional heights. — Jaeda DeWalt

You can't see a person more nakedly than that, when they don't know they're being watched, studied. — Jo Nesbo

Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings. — Harsha Bhogle

I want to be very careful about judging and how much to generalize about the use of media being pathological. For some people, it's a temptation and a pathology; for others, it's a lifeline. — Howard Rheingold

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't. — Antony Beevor

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. — Thomas Malthus

I'm a 'Blackadder' girl. — Natalie Dormer

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic. — William Perry

I have an idea," I said.
"This better not be a cunning plan," said Leslie.
Nightingale looked blank, but at least it got a chuckle from Dr Walid. — Ben Aaronovitch

Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour
Because I do not think
Because I know I shall not know
The one veritable transitory power — T. S. Eliot

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis's comments on them, and burned them. — A.S. Byatt

They did go on so, don't you think, those Victorian poets, they took themselves so horribly seriously?' he said, pushing the lift button, summoning it from the depths. As it creaked up, Blackadder said, 'That's not the worst thing a human being can do, take himself seriously. — A.S. Byatt