Frasi di Spike Milligan

Sir Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan, noto con il nome d'arte Spike Milligan , è stato un attore, scrittore e musicista irlandese. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Aprile 1918 – 27. Febbraio 2002
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“[Sui fratelli Marx] Quando ho iniziato a scrivere testi comici, il mio stile è stato plasmato dalla loro influenza. Mancavano il buonsenso e la logica ma certo non la follia creativa.”

Origine: Citato in Paul Duncan e Douglas Keesey (a cura di), Movie icons: Marx Bros., traduzione di Emanuela Rossato, Taschen, 2007, ISBN 9783822820186

Spike Milligan: Frasi in inglese

“Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.”

Variante: Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.

“I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”

Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor Live at Cambridge University. Recorded at Cambridge University on December 2, 1973, this was previously released as a double LP, and later re-issued as a 2 CD set. Milligan used variations on the Shakespear line throughout his later life.

“(On his gravestone): "I told you I was ill".”

His epitaph
Variante: I told you I was ill.

“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.”

The Last Goon Show of All (5 October 1972)

“Are you going to come along quietly, or am I going to have to use ear plugs?”

The Goon Show, Season 9, Episode 12: "The Call of the West" (January 20, 1959)
Alternative: "Are you going to come along quietly, or do you want musical accompaniment?"

“If a man dies when you hang him, keep hanging him until he gets used to it.”

[Rommel? Gunner Who? A Confrontation in the Desert, 1989-12-01, Penguin Books Ltd, ISBN 978-0140041071]

“God made night
But
Man made darkness.”

Poem God Made Night, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)

“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”

The Goon Show, Season 7, Episode 25: "The Histories of Pliny the Elder" (28 March 1957)

“A lot of learning can
be a little thing.”

England Home and Beauty for Sale, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)

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