Blackadder Baldrick Quotes & Sayings

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

English law in 1572 decreed that beggars above 14 years of age are to be severely flogged and branded on the left ear unless some one will take them into service for two years; in case of a repetition of the offense, if they are over 18, they are to be executed, unless some one will take them into service for two years; but for the third offence they are to be executed without mercy as felons. — Karl Marx

We all are born mad. Some remain so. — Samuel Beckett

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal. — Janet Echelman

Jane's dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive. — Luanne Rice

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that's my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I'm interested in the lives of Black folk as the subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent.[These stories] deserve to be told. Not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often, but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis, as do the stories of all the women you love. — Ava DuVernay

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing. — Gene Luen Yang

Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes. — Matt Haig