Quotes from John Biggins

I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to have plumbed the depths of human misery who has not shared the fore-ends of a submarine with a camel.

It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.

In fact the bare adjective "bad" hardly scratches the surface of the man's awesome incapacity.

Everything is just a mess, Friend, be clever! Fifty years from now Other people will be alive.