Quotes from Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

Ask a stupid person, you'll get a stupid answer.

No, but that Oxford and his smart friends, they've changed him. Ideas, that's what it is. I said, What use is ideas when you've a capon to baste and the tally-man's due any minute? Name an idea, I said, that can get the front steps scrubbed, the sausages pricked and the navel oranges squeezed in time for a meat tea and finger buffet. Well, he didn't know which way to look.