328 Quotes by John Cleese

Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

It's a plastic surgeon you need, not a doctor

He who laughs most, learns best.

Filming is like a long air journey: there's so much hanging around and boredom that they keep giving you food.

We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.