87 Quotes by Terry Jones

The university had a new Managing Director, whose greatest achievement had been to change his title from 'The Principal' to 'The Managing Director'.

Trevor wondered if anyone in the outside world could even guess at the horror of working in the Planning Department

The Crusaders had not only taken into themselves the notion that they would become better people through violence; they also projected onto the victims of their violence their own inner demons. This is probably the most obvious and long-lasting heritage of the crusade. We still do it.

What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.

Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.

Sarah: That's not fair!Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

The funny thing about history is that we imagine that people didn't laugh in the old days, but of course they did, at stupid things.

We are, of course, now against any other group burning Qurans. We would right now ask no one to burn Qurans. We are absolutely strong on that. It is not the time to do it.

We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.