- Born
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Spike Milligan Quotes
Most Famous Spike Milligan Quotes of All Time!
We have created a collection of some of the best spike-milligan quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Spike Milligan Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dinner
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it.
- Drive
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.
- Poetry
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.
- Disease
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
- Depression
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think of depression as contagious. Other depressed people challenge the idea - which can be very persistent and irritating - that there is something odd about you: that you are unique with regard to this wretched state.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I'm surprised they never threw me away. That's why I've always kept my children's things. My parents had no feelings for belongings.
- Horse
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.
- Looking
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching - 'Well,' I thought, 'my father's that,' and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India.
- Me
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
It was implanted in me that I came from a different class - an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don't remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school.
- People
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
You couldn't enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.
- Clocks
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
I can't stand being late. I try to be professional. I try not to let people down. But people let me down. That's why I don't rely on anyone to call me. That's why I have clocks as well as people. I have to be able to call myself; it's the only way to be sure.
- Home
- |
- Nov 07, 2020
Things began to improve when I went to Rangoon. To begin with, my father was promoted, which meant he was at home more. The matriarchal society was ended, and for the first time, I went to a boys' school.
- Life
- |
- Nov 07, 2020