Quotes by Richard Curtis

“Weve been very hard put to find new initiates among African Americans. It has really been very difficult. Its like finding a needle in a haystack for us.”

“Really, its a white drug at this point. Those are the only real large category of new users that we can find.”

“I want to be open about it because I think Ive got to the point where I have no choice,”

“It would be nice to get to the point where I dont have to think about it any more. People slip up all the time and refer to me as she. Ive even done it once in a bar when a friend introduced me to someone and I said, Hi, Im Vanda. Oh no Im not. Im Richard. ”

“The idea is to get people in with the romance, ... so I kept one foot in the old camp.”

“Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.”

“My patients have been very supportive, ... Because I had been dressing quite androgynously for some time, 99.9 per cent of them didnt even comment. One of them asked me if Id had a haircut.”

You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And Im afraid its stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. Its a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?Blackadder: Yes I have, and its so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Percy, you are dismissed from my service.Me? Why, my lord?Why? Because, Percy, far from being a fit consort for a prince of the realm, you would bore the leggings off a village idiot. You ride a horse rather less well than another horse would. Your brain would make a grain of sand look large and ungainly, and the part of you that cant be mentioned, I am reliably informed by women around the court, wouldnt be worth mentioning even if it could be. If you put on a floppy hat and a funny codpiece, you might just get by as a fool, but since you wouldnt know a joke if it got up and gave you a haircut, I doubt it. Thats why youre dismissed. Oh, I see. And as for you, Baldrick... Yes. Youre out, too.

The verdict of this court is that the accused are guilty of witchcraft. The maximum penalty the law allows is to be burned to death.However, in view of your previous good background I am disposed to be lenient. I therefore sentence you to be burned alive.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isnt mine by right!

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because its good.

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinions starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I dont see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often its not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but its always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, Ive got a sneaky feeling youll find that love actually is all around.

“You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And Im afraid its stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. Its a terrible thing to know, but I know it.”

“Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.”