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Quotes About Monty

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
~ Michael York
As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.
~ Zadie Smith
Are there weapons in a bookstore?" "It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly.
~ Anne Bishop
It's a store full of books, which are objects that can be thrown as well as read," Monty replied blandly. The Crow cocked his head. "I had no idea you humans lived with so much danger." Monty
~ Anne Bishop
'Dead peasants insurance' is a term that sounds as if it comes straight out of Monty Python. If only that were true.
~ John Lanchester
I'd grown up loving English films. I was a huge Monty Python fanatic as a kid.
~ Alessandro Nivola
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
~ Alice Cooper
'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.
~ Simon Beaufoy
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
~ Monty Python
Your Life our your lupines! Dennis Moore
~ Monty Python
If this were a book written to entertain small children, you would know what would happen next. With the villain's identity and evil plans exposed, the police would arrive on the scene and place him in a jail for the rest of his life, and the plucky youngsters would go out for pizza and live happily ever after. But this book is about the Baudelaire orphans, and you and I know that these three unfortunate children living happily ever after is about as likely as Uncle Monty returning to life.
~ Lemony Snicket
Allowed?' Uncle Monty repeated. 'Of course not! You are implored to come inside here, my boy.
~ Lemony Snicket
As he has promised, no harm has come to the Baudelaire orphans in the Reptile Room, but great harm had come to Uncle Monty.
~ Lemony Snicket
It would have pained the immaculate Monty, could he have known that his prospective employer was picturing him at the moment as furtive, shifty-eyed, rat-like person of the gangster, type, liable at the first opportunity to sneak into the sties of innocent pigs and plant pineapple bombs in their bran-mash.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego.
~ Monty Don
As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-quotation, we will continue to raise victims. And so the cycle of underachievement continues.
~ Zadie Smith
Finally one evening somebody suggested Python (a great name for an untrustworthy impresario, I thought), someone else added Monty, which had connotations of our greatest World War II general, there was hysteria, and history was made. A
~ John Cleese
We are no longer the knights who say ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!
~ Monty Python
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
~ Monty Python
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.
~ Monty Python
In close-up, Monty was absolutely riveting. One was practically absorbed into his eyes, which were clearly formidable and perhaps his best asset as an actor. Large, grey, infinitely expressive in his beautiful but rather deadpan face, they could register yearning, intelligence, and despair in quick succession
~ Unknown