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Top 20 Peter Cook Quotes (2025 Update)

Peter Cook Quote: “I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly.”

1. “I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly.”

Peter Cook Quote: “As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”

2. “As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I am very interested in the Universe – I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.”

3. “I am very interested in the Universe – I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.”

Peter Cook Quote: “Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I’ve been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.”

4. “Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I’ve been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.”

Peter Cook Quote: “Everything I’ve ever told you, including this, is a lie.”

5. “Everything I’ve ever told you, including this, is a lie.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.”

6. “I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.”

Peter Cook Quote: “We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.”

7. “We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.”

Peter Cook Quote: “The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.”

8. “The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I met a man at a party. He said “I’m writing a novel” I said “Oh really? Neither am I.”

9. “I met a man at a party. He said “I’m writing a novel” I said “Oh really? Neither am I.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.”

10. “I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.”

Peter Cook Quote: “The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.”

11. “The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there.”

Peter Cook Quote: “Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

12. “Playing rugby at school I once fell on a loose ball and, through ignorance and fear, held on despite a fierce pummelling. After that it took me months to convince my team-mates I was a coward.”

Peter Cook Quote: “If there’s one thing I can’t bear, it’s when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can’t bear that.”

13. “If there’s one thing I can’t bear, it’s when hundreds of old men come creeping in through the window in the middle of the night and throw all manner of garbage over me. I can’t bear that.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I’ve always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I’ve got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I’ve got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

14. “I’ve always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I’ve got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I’ve got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

Peter Cook Quote: “Job was what you’d technically describe as a loony.”

15. “Job was what you’d technically describe as a loony.”

Peter Cook Quote: “One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.”

16. “One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.”

Peter Cook Quote: “Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.”

17. “Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.”

Peter Cook Quote: “You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense – In less enlightened times they’d have hung you for it.”

18. “You realize that suicide’s a criminal offense – In less enlightened times they’d have hung you for it.”

Peter Cook Quote: “We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I’ll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property – that’s one of the signs we look for.”

19. “We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I’ll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property – that’s one of the signs we look for.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I didn’t know dirty words could be done that artfully.”

20. “I didn’t know dirty words could be done that artfully.”

Peter Cook Quote: “I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said ‘The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.’ So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, ‘If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don’t deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.”

21. “I saw an advertisement the other day for the secret of life. It said ‘The secret of life can be yours for twenty-five shillings. Sent to Secret of Life Institute, Willesden.’ So I wrote away, seemed a good bargain, secret of life, twenty-five shillings. And I got a letter back saying, ‘If you think you can get the secret of life for twenty-five shillings, you don’t deserve to have it. Send fifty shillings for the secret of life.”

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