177 Quotes by Eric Idle

I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

Life has a very simple plot: first you’re here and then you’re not.

Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is “beware”. This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.

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.

Never do things for money. It’s always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

Life doesn’t make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy’s job is to point out that it doesn’t make sense, and that it doesn’t make much difference anyway.

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can’t go very far wrong.

Americans like to think ‘Python’ is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.