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Top 20 Robert Rankin Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Rankin Quote: “If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.”

1. “If there are no spots on a sugar cube then I’ve just put a dice in my tea.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Because I’m a special gatekeeper. I’m the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I’m only a head, I’m also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don’t you agree?”

2. “Because I’m a special gatekeeper. I’m the head gatekeeper. Because, although, as you can see, I’m only a head, I’m also the gatekeeper. Which makes me the head gatekeeper. Which makes me very special, don’t you agree?”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.”

3. “What is believed to be a fact is only a fact until another fact supersedes it. Science is only a fashion. Nothing more.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you’re coming down them, of course.”

4. “The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you’re coming down them, of course.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.”

5. “Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father.”

6. “I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Everyone misbehaves,′ said Eddie. ‘That’s nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.”

7. “Everyone misbehaves,′ said Eddie. ‘That’s nature. Everyone gets away with as much as they can get away with. And the more they can get away with, the more they will.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.”

8. “It was joy, joy, happy joy. Happy, happy joy. A big fat smiley sun rose above the rooftops and beamed down its blessings onto the borough known as Brentford.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Jamadars and bheesties,’ said the helmsman. ‘Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.’ ‘Twisted firestarters?’ enquired the detective. ‘I told you not to mention them.”

9. “Jamadars and bheesties,’ said the helmsman. ‘Not to mention the major-domos, lordly lamplighters and twisted firestarters.’ ‘Twisted firestarters?’ enquired the detective. ‘I told you not to mention them.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Now, it’s a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.”

10. “Now, it’s a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in all around.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?”

11. “Who was there to guide them? The words of self-obsessed politicians, egotistical media personalities, power-crazed newspaper magnates and half-mad clerics? Who could reason sensibly when supplied with all the wrong information for all the wrong reasons?”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Calm down please, sir, if you will,’ said the bobby, still retaining a firm hold upon the horse’s reins. ‘ “Stolen” is such an ugly word. It is not technically stealing if you are a British archaeologist and you acquire items of historical significance in the savage realms and liberate them to civilisation.”

12. “Calm down please, sir, if you will,’ said the bobby, still retaining a firm hold upon the horse’s reins. ‘ “Stolen” is such an ugly word. It is not technically stealing if you are a British archaeologist and you acquire items of historical significance in the savage realms and liberate them to civilisation.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “What it all comes down to, as it so often does, is the very beginning of the universe. This, say the big-heads of the scientific fraternity, all began with a big bang. Wrong! The universe, in fact, began with the sound of a duck call, followed by a whistle and an enormous cosmic wind-break. Had anyone been around at the time to overhear these sounds, they would probably have received a pretty good indication of what God had up his sleeve, amongst other places.”

13. “What it all comes down to, as it so often does, is the very beginning of the universe. This, say the big-heads of the scientific fraternity, all began with a big bang. Wrong! The universe, in fact, began with the sound of a duck call, followed by a whistle and an enormous cosmic wind-break. Had anyone been around at the time to overhear these sounds, they would probably have received a pretty good indication of what God had up his sleeve, amongst other places.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “And the city itself.’ John was not done yet. ‘Where have we seen that before? No? Well, I’ll tell you it’s Ankh Mor –.”

14. “And the city itself.’ John was not done yet. ‘Where have we seen that before? No? Well, I’ll tell you it’s Ankh Mor –.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Still,′ whispered Jack, ’you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.”

15. “Still,′ whispered Jack, ’you have to keep at it. Overcome the miseries of vomiting and the whirling pit. Pay your dues and work towards the real rewards of big-time adult drinking. Something to look forward to.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Pooley rose to investigate but the Professor restrained him with a firm and unyielding hand. Jim marvelled at the ancient’s newly acquired strength. ‘Do not look, Jim,’ the Professor said dramatically, ’you would not care for what you saw.”

16. “Pooley rose to investigate but the Professor restrained him with a firm and unyielding hand. Jim marvelled at the ancient’s newly acquired strength. ‘Do not look, Jim,’ the Professor said dramatically, ’you would not care for what you saw.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example – the Bermondsey Union of Minstrels. Or WILLY, the Whitechapel Institution for Long-Legged Yodellers. It could be any one of a hundred such evil cabals. With the notable exception of the Meritorious Union For Friendship, Decency, Individualism, Virtue and Educational Resources, who were above reproach.”

17. “Probably one of those sinister organisations that lurked behind the mask of amusing acronym, such as BUM, for example – the Bermondsey Union of Minstrels. Or WILLY, the Whitechapel Institution for Long-Legged Yodellers. It could be any one of a hundred such evil cabals. With the notable exception of the Meritorious Union For Friendship, Decency, Individualism, Virtue and Educational Resources, who were above reproach.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Science,′ said Mr Anders Anders. ‘Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it’s because they’re actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You’d be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.”

18. “Science,′ said Mr Anders Anders. ‘Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it’s because they’re actually simpler than you think them to be. Things are never as difficult and complicated as folk believe. You’d be surprised just how straightforward and obvious things really are. The secret is in knowing how to look at them the right way.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.”

19. “To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.”

20. “It was a sight to make Zane Grey reach for his ballpoint, or Sergio Leone send out for another fifty foot of standard eight.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.”

21. “H. G. Wells once said that every word of which a man is ignorant represents an idea of which he is ignorant.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.”

22. “I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn’t like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac.”

23. “Neville flexed his nostrils, he didn’t like the smell of this. The young man was clearly a monomaniac.”

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Robert Rankin Quote: “EBooks, is it. Or as a wise man once said, “bringing the otherwise unpublishable to the mostly illiterate”.”

24. “EBooks, is it. Or as a wise man once said, “bringing the otherwise unpublishable to the mostly illiterate”.”

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