328 Quotes by John Cleese

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

Sense of humor is so much more subjective than anyone believes.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

Although I had good hand-eye coordination, I was so tall and skinny and muscularly weak that I just was not well coordinated. But what I started to do quite early on was watch some of the great old silent comedians, like Laurel and Hardy and Chaplin, and then later on Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton.

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

What's the bleedin' point?

How to defend yourself against a banana

God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.

My hovercraft is full of eels.