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Blackadder Quotes Part 1: British TV Series

Black adder is british Cult Classic Television Series. Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC1 historical sitcom, along with several one-off installments. All television program episodes starred Rowan Atkinson as anti-hero Edmund Blackadder and Tony Robinson as Blackadder’s dogsbody, Baldrick. Each series was set in a different historical period with the two protagonists accompanied by different characters. This is part 1 of the series, check out Blackadder Quotes Part 2.

Black Adder TV Series Quotes

Opening narration: History has known many great liars. Copernicus. Goebbels. St. Ralph the Liar. [he is shown holding a sign which reads “St. Benedict the Liar”] But there have been none quite so vile as the Tudor King Henry VII. It was he who rewrote history to portray his predecessor, Richard III, as a deformed maniac who killed his nephews in the Tower. But the real truth is that Richard was a kind and thoughtful man who cherished his young wards, in particular Richard, Duke of York, who grew into a big, strong boy. Henry also claimed he won the Battle of Bosworth Field and killed Richard III. Again, the truth is very different; for it was Richard, Duke of York, who became king after Bosworth Field, and reigned for thirteen glorious years. As for who really killed Richard III and how the defeated Henry Tudor escaped with his life, all is revealed in this, the first chapter of a history never before told: the history of… the Black Adder!

Edmund: I like the cut of your jib, young fella me lad. What’s your name?
Baldrick: My name is Baldrick, my lord.
Edmund: Then I shall call you Baldrick, Baldrick.
Baldrick: And I shall call you “my lord,” my lord.

Percy: It will be a great day tomorrow for we nobles.
Prince Edmund: Well, not if we lose, Percy. If we lose, I’ll be chopped to pieces. My arms will end up at Essex, my torso in Norfolk, and my genitalia stuck up in a tree somewhere in Rutland.

Edmund: Don’t be absurd. Such activities are totally beyond my mother. My father only got anywhere with her because he told her it was a cure for diarrhoea.

Prince Harry: McAngus, this is the man who’ll be providing tomorrow’s entertainments! [gestures to Edmund]
Dougal McAngus: Ah, the eunuch! Delighted to meet you; there’s a groat for the troubles!
Edmund: [in a high pitched voice] I am not a eunuch!
Dougal McAngus: You sound like one to me!
Edmund: [normal voice] I am not a eunuch, I am the Duke of Edinburgh!
Dougal McAngus: [sarcastically] Oh you are, are you!? [turns to Queen Gertrude] Same old story, eh!? Duke of Edinburgh’s about as Scottish as the Queen of England’s tits! [realises] Och, nae offence, your Majesty.

If you have not seen the series, you can check out details here;

Black Adder: The Complete Collector’s Set
Black Adder Remastered V: The Specials
The Black Adder
Black Adder II

Harry: Yes, that’s right. A tragic accident.
Edmund: Almost as tragic as Archbishop Bertram being struck by a falling gargoyle whilst swimming off Beachy Head.
Harry: Yes, or Archbishop Wilfred slipping and falling backwards onto the spire of Norwich Cathedral. Oh, Lord, you do work in mysterious ways.

King Richard IV: [to Edmund] You, as compared to your beloved brother Harry, are as excrement compared to cream!
Harry: Oh, father, you flatter me!
Edmund: And me, also!

Graveney: And if I don’t leave my lands to the church, then what?
William: Then, Lord Graveney, you will assuredly go to Hell.
Graveney: Alas!
William: Hell, where the air is pungent with the aroma of roasted behinds!
Graveney: No, no! (coughs) I place my lands in the hands of the Church (signs) and so bid the world farewell.

Edmund: Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!
Graveney: Am I in Paradise?
Edmund: No, no, not yet.
Graveney: Then this must be Hell. Alas, spare my posterior!
Edmund: No, no, you’re all right — it’s England.
Graveney: And you are not Satan?
Edmund: No, I’m the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Graveney: Your Grace, I have left all my lands to the Church. Am I to be saved?

Edmund: Someone like you go to Hell? Never. Never!!
Graveney: But I have committed many sins.
Edmund: Haven’t we all, haven’t we all…
Graveney: I murdered my father…
Edmund: Well, I know how you feel.
Graveney: …and I have committed adultery…
Edmund: Well, who hasn’t?
Graveney: …more than a thousand times…
Edmund: Well, it is 1487!
Graveney: …with my mother.
Edmund: WHAT?
King: Good Lord…
Graveney: You see, I *will* go to Hell.

King: Chiswick, remind me to send flowers to the king of France in sympathy for the death of his son.
Chiswick: The one you had murdered, my lord?
King: [absentmindedly] Yes, yes, that’s the fellow.

King: Chiswick, take this to the Queen of Naples. [holds up an urn]
Chiswick: What is it, my lord?
King: The King of Naples!

Percy: Look, look, I just can’t take the pressure of all these omens any more!
Edmund: Percy…
Percy: No, no, really, I’m serious! Only this morning in the courtyard I saw a horse with two heads and two bodies!
Edmund: Two horses standing next to each other?
Percy: Yes, I suppose it could have been.

Edmund: He murdered his whole family!
Pete: Who didn’t? I certainly killed mine.
Wilfred: And I killed mine.
Friar: And I killed yours.
Sean: Did you?
Friar: Yes.
Sean: Good on you, Father.

If you are fan of the series, check out other DVDs starred by Funnyman Rowan Atkinson.

Source: Blackadder DVD, wikiquote

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes: Famous Sayings Of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is one of wisest man that is admired throughout the world. He was not only one of the best US president but his skill as a leader and his upbringing from hard work till his death is so inspirational and motivational for many. Here are some of wisdom and success quotes from Abraham Lincoln.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
~ Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
~ Abraham Lincoln

See also:

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (fiction)

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Quotes By Gandhi: Wisdom Mahama Gandhi Sayings

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the wisest man and man about Peace. Even Martin Luther King was influenced by his philosophy and life when he started his civil freedom for black in USA. Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by Gandhi that will inspire and uplift your life.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.-Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. -Young India (19 January 1928)

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

Young India (21 January 1927)

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

“Hate the sin and not the sinner” is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

GandhiJi’s Books:

Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Selfishness is blind.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force).

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle, we won’t have to pass fruitless idle resolutions. But we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.

True discipline gives enthusiastic obedience to instructions even though they don not satisfy the reason.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Conscience is the ripe fruit of strictest discipline.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it.

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -human religion- but any number of faiths.

Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble.

Fear is not a disease of the body, fear kills the soul.

Where there is fear, there is not religion.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Today machinery merely helps a few to ride on the backs of millions.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

It is my firm conviction that if the State supressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

It can be easily demonstrated that destruction of the capitalist must mean destruction in the end of the worker and as no human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption, no human being is so perfect as to warrant his destroying him whom he wrongly considers to be wholly evil.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

Also Check out:

Gandhi Books and DVDs

Success Quotes: Lifting Up Quotes For Finding Success

Here are some quotes by famous and wise folks of our life about finding success. Inspirational and motivational quotes to lift up your spirit and make you steps closer to achieve success in your life.

“Hitch your wagon to a star”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
~ MAHATMA GANDHI

“The world will not change until we do”
~ JIM WALLIS

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart.”

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” Sidney Lovett

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’Amour

“Follow your bliss”
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
is the only way of being happy.”
– JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
— ANNE FRANK

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— MARK TWAIN

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection”
— LAWRENCE DURRELL

“A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . .”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
— SUZE ORMAN

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful”
— ANNETTE FUNICELLO

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
— CORITA KENT

” Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better”
— EMILE COUÉ

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . .
Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
— THOMAS DREIER

“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here and right now. Don’t miss it.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves”
~ VIKTOR FRANKL

“Be here now!”
— RAM DAS

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”
— ANNIE DILLARD

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”
— CHARLES DEDERICH

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!”
— JAMES A .MICHENER

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Giving opens the way to receiving”
— FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

” Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons”
— RUTH ANN SCHABACKER

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”
— UNKNOWN

“Your love is better than ice cream”
— SARAH MCLACHLAN

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— CARL SAGAN

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
— MARY ENGELBREIT

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
– AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more”
— LORD BYRON

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
— JASON KAUFMANN

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”
— MARIE BEYON RAY

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
– MICHAEL J. FOX

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Over All the Sky – The Sky! Far, Far out of Reach. Studded with the Eternal Stars.”
– WALT WHITMAN

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
– HENRY JAMES

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.”
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

What’s the best thing that happened to you today?”
– AMANDA GORE

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.”
— LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
— UNKNOWN

“The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– HENRY MILLER

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
– BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.”
— GRANDMA MOSES

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Life is too short to fly coach!”
– DALE IRVIN

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— ANONYMOUS

“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkein

Uplifting Quotes: Mood Lifting Quotes When Feeling Blue

Often times, even most optimistic person can blue and feel depressed in his or her life. For those times, we can all use some help from inspiring lifting up person or lifting up quotes to lift up mood and find cheerful attitude to keep us going. Here are some of the mood lifting quotes to lift up your mood. Enjoy the motivational and inspirational mood lifting quotes.

“As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.” – Alan Cohen

“Life is not measured by the Numbers of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..” -Unknown

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King

“The Important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are;For what we could become”. -CHARLES DUBOIS

“To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” – Mark Twain

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” Eckhart Tolle

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” -Elie Weisel

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else”. -J.M. BARRIE, Novelist

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” -Robert Schuller

“See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.”- Deepak Chopra

“Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” -Francis Bacon

“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Unknown

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”- Edward A. Navajo

“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” -Japanese proverb

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear” – Cesare Pavese

“The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” -Anthony J. D’ Angelo

“The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ” -Unknown

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” -Epictetus

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

“In any conflict, we can defend ourselves or we can learn. Defense has made the world unlivable. What would happen if we chose to learn instead? Instead of saying, ‘You frighten me’, what if we said, ‘You interest me’?” -Leslie Back, One

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” -Jim Rohn

Motivational Monty Python and Holy Grail Quotes:

I love Monty Python series. Here are some memorable quotes from Monty Python and Holy Grail.

God: Every time I try to talk to someone it’s “sorry this” and “forgive me that” and “I’m not worthy”…

King Arthur: I am your king.
Woman: Well I didn’t vote for you.
King Arthur: You don’t vote for kings.
Woman: Well how’d you become king then?
[Angelic music plays… ]

[the King gestures to the window]
King of Swamp Castle: One day, lad, all this will be yours.
Prince Herbert: What, the curtains?
King of Swamp Castle: No, not the curtains, lad, all that you can see stretched out over the valleys and the hills! That’ll be your kingdom, lad.

King Arthur: One, two, five!
Sir Galahad: Three sir!
King Arthur: THREE!

Minstrel: [singing] Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his penis…
Sir Robin: That’s, uh, that’s enough music for now, lads… looks like there’s dirty work afoot.

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God: What are you doing now?
King Arthur: Averting our eyes, oh Lord.
God: Well, don’t. It’s just like those miserable psalms, always so depressing. Now knock it off!

Tim: Follow. But. Follow only if ye be men of valour, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived. Bones of full fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth.
King Arthur: What an eccentric performance.

King Arthur: Can we come up and have a look?
French Soldier: Of course not. You’re English types.
King Arthur: What are you then?
French Soldier: I’m French. Why do you think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king?
Sir Galahad: What are you doing in England?
French Soldier: Mind your own business.

Sir Lancelot: [Bursts into the Prince’s room and kneels before him after killing the guards] Oh, fair one, behold, I am you humble servant Sir Launcelot. I have come to take
[looks up and realizes that he is kneeling before an effeminate Prince, not a Princess]
Sir Lancelot: Oh, I’m terribly sorry!
Prince Herbert: You got my note!
Sir Lancelot: Uh, well, I got a note.
Prince Herbert: You’ve come to rescue me! I knew someone would! I knew that somewhere out there, there must be someone who
[Music swells]
King of Swamp Castle: Stop that! Stop it! Stop it!
[Music stops]
King of Swamp Castle: Who are you?
Prince Herbert: I’m your son!
King of Swamp Castle: No, not you!
Sir Lancelot: I am Sir Launcelot, sir.
Prince Herbert: He’s come to rescue me, father!
Sir Lancelot: Well, let’s not jump to conclusions.
King of Swamp Castle: Did you kill all those guards?
Sir Lancelot: Um… oh, yes! Sorry.
King of Swamp Castle: They cost fifty pounds each!
Sir Lancelot: Well, the thing is, I thought your son was a lady.
King of Swamp Castle: Well, I can understand that.

King of Swamp Castle: When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that’s what you’re going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.

Knight 1: We are now no longer the Knights who say Ni.
Knight 2: NI.
Other Knights: Shh…
Knight 1: We are now the Knights who say… “Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z’nourrwringmm.

Woman: Oh. How do you do?
King Arthur: How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
Woman: King of the who?
King Arthur: King of the Britons.
Woman: Who are the Britons?
King Arthur: Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king.
Woman: I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Dennis: You’re foolin’ yourself! We’re living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working class…
Woman: Oh, there you go bringing class into it again.
Dennis: Well, that’s what it’s all about! If only people would…
King Arthur: Please, please, good people, I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
Woman: No one lives there.
King Arthur: Then who is your lord?
Woman: We don’t have a lord.
Dennis: I told you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to be a sort of executive officer for the week…
King Arthur: Yes…
Dennis: …but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting…
King Arthur: Yes I see…
Dennis: …by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs…
King Arthur: Be quiet!
Dennis: …but by a two thirds majority in the case of…
King Arthur: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Woman: Order, eh? Who does he think he is?

Minstrel: [singing] He is packing it in and packing it up And sneaking away and buggering off And chickening out and pissing off home, Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge.

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How to Be a Leader: Motivational Leadership Quotes

Leadership quotes can be powerful and encouraging in personal or business life. Here are some that you may like;

And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
–Lester R. Bittel

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. – Warren Bennis

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. -David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. -Albert Einstein

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. -Harold S. Geneen

He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin

Leadership resources:

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. –Warren Bennis

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. -Ross Perot

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. –Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. -Harry Truman

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Harold R. McAlindon

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.-Walter Lippman

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. –Warren Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. –Theodore Hesburgh

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. -Rachel Maddow

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. -John Gardner

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. –Edwin H. Friedman

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants. –Robert Greenleaf

Motivational Life Quotes: Quotes to Motivate You

Do all things with love.
Og Mandino

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Kahlil Gibran

Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.
J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, spoken by Mr. Spencer.

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth, 5. 5.

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is bliss, taste it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.
Mother Teresa

Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine… Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.
Buddha

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.
A. A. Milne
Winnie the Pooh.

Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
Author Unknown

The Best Things in Life are Free.
B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson
Song from the Musical ‘Good News’.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Oscar Wilde

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
Irish Saying

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
Zeno
From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan, Act I.

Where there is love there is life.
Indira Gandhi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone.
Reba McEntire

Life is nothing without friendship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll need them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

The best of times is now.
Oprah Winfrey

Whatever you are be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Andersen

Life is a ticket to the greatest show on earth.
Martin H. Fischer

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
W. H. Davies
Leisure.

The healthiest response to life is joy.
Deepak Chopra

When you’re chewing on life’s gristle
Don’t grumble, give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best…
And…always look on the bright side of life…
Always look on the light side of life.
Monty Python’s Life of Brian