Quotes from Richard Curtis

We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God.

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.

Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars! And you see how they roar their light. Everywhere we look, the complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.

He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world's greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.

Happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.

We're all travelling through time together, everyday of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

Whoopsidaisies!

I have a cunning plan.

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

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 I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

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 it's good.

Baldrick, we are about as similar as two...dis-similar things in a pod!

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

The more I think about things, the more I see no rhyme or reason in life. no one knows why some things work out and some things don't. Why some of us are lucky and some of us get...

It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.

Why, on to the castle, to kill the royal family, and claim the throne that isn't mine by right!

Yes, and this is mine. (Baldrick produces a single scruffy piece of paper.) My magnificent octopus.

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.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!" ~ Richard Curtis ~

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks!

Oh damn! One measly civil war in the entire history of England and I'm on the wrong bloody side!

We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!

You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.