Graham Chapman Quotes

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We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

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Lost, Ends

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Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

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Kilimanjaro, Tricky, Climbs

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I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

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Inspirational, Country, Fun

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You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

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Country, People, Today

"Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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Always look on the bright side of life.

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Positive Attitude, Positivity, Good As It Gets

Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

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Change, Knights, Holy Grail

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Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government.

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Lying, Government, Holy Grail

"Fictional character: Dennis". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", www.imdb.com. March 14, 1975.

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My philosophy, like color television, is all there in black and white.

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Philosophy, Black And White, Color

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This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

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Death, Rest In Peace, Would Be

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

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Nice, Alarms, Looks

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We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

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Justified, Feels

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Exploding is a perfectly normal medical phenomenon.

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Perfectly Normal, Medical, Phenomenon

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We found that we didn't have much problem with him [J.C.], it was his followers we found questionable.

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Followers, Problem, Found

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Oh, you're in television! That's interesting. No, I mean, the word television is interesting. It's a hybrid, you see: tele- comes from the greek, and -vision comes from the latin. It should have been either "telerama", or "procolvision".

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Latin, Mean, Should Have

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You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

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Animal, People, Silence

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When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.

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Bird, Deaf, Used

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones (2009). “Monty Python Live!”, Hyperion

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At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before.

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Father, Night, Hammers

Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

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Nudge, nudge. Snap, snap. Grin, grin. Wink, wink, say no more? Could be, could be taken on holiday. Could be yes - swimming costumes. Know what I mean. Candid photography. Know what I mean, nudge nudge.

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Mean, Nudge Nudge, Winking

"Fictional character: Mr. Norman Nudge". TV Series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" ("How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away", 1969), www.imdb.com. 1969-1974.

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I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!

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Mean, Holy Grail, Peasants

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

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Mother, Father, Animal

"Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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A murderer is only an extroverted suicide.

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Suicide, Murderer

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I fart in your general direction.

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Comedy, Fart

"Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

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People, Accepting, Inevitable

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McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time...

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Sorry, Worry, Once Upon A Time

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In 1945, peace broke out. It was the end of the Joke. Joke warfare was banned at a special session of the Geneva Convention, and in 1950 the last remaining copy of the joke was laid to rest here in the Berkshire countryside, never to be told again.

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Special, Warfare, Lasts

"Monty Python's Flying Circus". TV Series, 1969 - 1974.

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Born: January 8, 1941
Died: October 4, 1989
Occupation: Comedian
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