Arthur Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I find it hilarious that there are academics who try to analyse chemical changes in the brains of students while exposing them to gags.”

“If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.”

“It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.”

“I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.”

“Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.”

“The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps since a typical walk for Samuel T. Coleridge might last two days and cover 145km.”

“The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.”

“Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'”

“Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.”

“It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.”