Peter Cook Quotes (10 Quotes)


    I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin'. I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned.

    All in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner. And what is more, being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges.

    I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

    You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I dont want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home.

    My biggest regret in life is saving David Frost from drowning


    There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top.

    I managed to get through the mining exams - they're not very rigorous, they only ask you one question, they say 'Who are you' and I got seventy-five per cent on that.

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

    I'd be very surprised if he wasn't picked for Germany now. His confidence is sky high, he's in the form of his life and that's what it's all about as a keeper.

    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.


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