Fawlty Towers Major Quotes & Sayings

They could play married, both happy and unhappy, like no other acting couple have ever played married. They're the Lunts of the American marriage movie. — Jeanine Basinger

Colombians might live in one of best places in the world to grow coffee beans, yet their cups of coffee come from dehydrated granules in tiny plastic packages. This is the definition of tragedy. — Bryanna Plog

I have a lavish, steady, dependable income, consistent with integrity and mutual benefit. — Neville Goddard

She's the only girl who's ever broken my heart, and it's a very weird, uncomfortable feeling for me. I like to be the one doing the heartbreaking. Well, not really. No one ever likes to break someone's heart, but sometimes it has to be done. — Lauren Barnholdt

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it. — Debbie Harry

After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours. — Martin Jacques

One who sets the entire army in motion to chase an advantage will not attain it. — Sun Tzu

F you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be obsessive about the subject. Then to give him the power to tell other people how to run their sex lives, well, that's just asking for trouble. In a way, it's like having a blind person teach Art History, isn't it? — Donna Leon

We all know, intuitively, that if something is humanly possible, it is possible for ourselves. — Vironika Tugaleva

Law is a bottomless pit. — John Arbuthnot