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If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly.
Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?
Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.
The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain...
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
Mercifully, Henry hit him with the soft end of the pistol.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
It was a great party until someone found the hammer.
I've been looking for that particular son of a bitch for seven years. I could have been a doctor, or an architect.
And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice!
Seems a novel enough way to commit suicide. Pass me m' pistol. See if I can't bring the blighter down in the lake.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
English as tuppence, changing yet changeless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
You got a light, mac? No...but I've got a dark brown overcoat.
Normally I pack a rod; in pyjamas I carry nothing but scars from Normandy Beach
Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ...
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life
Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight...