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Top 60 Eric Idle Quotes (2024 Update)

Eric Idle Quote: “Life has a very simple plot: first you’re here and then you’re not.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Life doesn’t make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy’s job is to point out that it doesn’t make sense, and that it doesn’t make much difference anyway.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I believe in the separation of church and planet.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is “beware”. This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Always look on the brighter side of life.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Never do things for money. It’s always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Talent is always more interesting – ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world’s terms.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the cube root of MCC squared divided by X minus a quarter of a third percent. Keep that in mind, and you can’t go very far wrong.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Know what I mean? Eh, eh, Nudge nudge, Say no more?”
Eric Idle Quote: “Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you’ve about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don’t just pursue happiness, catch it.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I pay taxes in three countries, but can’t vote in any of them.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I won’t read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?”
Eric Idle Quote: “Pattycake, pattycake, baker’s man; good morning, madam, I’m a psychiatrist.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.”
Eric Idle Quote: “A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Typical Hollywood crowd – all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.”
Eric Idle Quote: “What’s brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!”
Eric Idle Quote: “Elvis saved my life when I was 13 or 14. He saved all our lives.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I used to have a house in London, but couldn’t face 20 more years of St John’s Wood in the rain.”
Eric Idle Quote: “A nod’s as good as a wink to a blind bat!”
Eric Idle Quote: “No day of my life passes without someone saying the words ‘Monty Python’ to me. It’s not bad.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it’s knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.”
Eric Idle Quote: “When, in 1966, I progressed to The Frost Report, I was paid ten guineas a minute. I was guaranteed three minutes a week, so this was good money.”
Eric Idle Quote: “When I was 23 I started writing for I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again and was paid three guineas for every minute’s airtime.”
Eric Idle Quote: “The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.”
Eric Idle Quote: “To me, the musical is best when it’s a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that’s what the musical does best.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I’ve always found bad films more enjoyable than good ones.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I love being an older comic now. It’s like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You’re in the Hall of Fame and it’s nice, but you’re no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate – you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I’m allergic to mould.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.”
Eric Idle Quote: “You initially become funny as a kid because you’re looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that’s all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam’s the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I’m not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!”
Eric Idle Quote: “If this isn’t exactly what went down, it’s certainly how it should have happened.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I never pay any attention to figures.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I’ve got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.”
Eric Idle Quote: “My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I’m always paying out to animal charities.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.”
Eric Idle Quote: “My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.”
Eric Idle Quote: “If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Laughter is the only sane response to pathological lying.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Having little money to spend was a valuable learning experience. My schooling also shaped my work ethic because while other children were listening to the Goons, I was studying, which enabled me to go to Cambridge University.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It’s my escape and I love it.”
Eric Idle Quote: “Americans like to think ‘Python’ is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I think, after all, I’m happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I have British teeth. They are like British politics: they go in all directions at once.”
Eric Idle Quote: “I like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant – I’m more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.”
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