English Quotes

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

We can't keep playing catch up as we have done for every season I've been here.

The problem is, when you come back in you're sweating, so I wait until the very last minute before putting on my shirt so that it's not covered in sweat.

The best player I've ever played with was Paul Gascoigne. He had everything. He was amazing.

Of course, I will keep myself fit, keep my boots clean and you never know.

Marcel Desailly was pretty hard when I played against him in a Milan derby.

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

It's not just what you do on the pitch, it's what you do off the pitch.

It's a shame the Manchester United situation turned sour.

I'm taking it step by step and not thinking at all about a new contract.

I love tackling, love it. It's better than sex.

I like to knuckle down and get on with my job. I'll make mistakes, I'm bound to, but I'll write them down and I'll learn from them.

I just didn't want to walk away from football without knowing what it meant to be a manager, or even wondering what it was like to be sacked.

I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

We've discovered that the less we do, the more money we make.

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

You look just like you!

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.