233 Quotes by Hugh Laurie

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

Happiness is the twinkle in your grandmother’s eye as you reverse the tractor off her legs.

Look,’ I said, ‘I’ll be honest with you. You’re a big chap, and I’m sure you can do more press-ups than I can. And I admire you for it. This world needs people to be able to do press-ups. It’s important.

I don’t talk like House, or walk like him. I certainly don’t think like him. I don’t like to think for more than 15 minutes at a stretch actually; I am a fragile flower.

Of course, they hadn’t really been happier at all. But they ’d been days, and they’d had Sarah in them, and that was near enough.

Solomon raised an eyebrow. Or rather, he left it where it was and dropped his body slightly.

I stayed where I was and watched. The man and the corridor. He didn’t make any other noise, and the corridor didn’t do anything that corridors don’t normally do.

Just because it’s a bad job doesn’t mean I need to do it badly.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven’t fallen since.