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Name some of your Favourite Quotes!?

Can be by anyone, from Churchill to Brian Clough! Or any others!

I'll start;

Lady Astor to Churchill: "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison"
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it"

Think mine has to be the one on your signature danny!!

Or failing that, any of the fab lines that Humphrey Bogart had in Casablanca.

I quite like this from the Big Bang Theory by Sheldon;

"A three pronged fork is not a fork it is a trident. A fork is for eating. A trident is for ruling the seven seas."

"If theres always biscuits in the tin, wheres the fun in biscuits?"

One of my favourites by Brian Clough: "They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job."

“ A committee of Congressmen who asshole to asshole couldn t make a beerfart in a whirlwind decide no more shore time for your basic ass in the grass Marine. We respond in true Marine Corp fashion ...... salute, do an about-face double time back to the boom-boom garbage dump where we proceed to get the clap, the drips and the crabs and generally, a poor attitude towards the female of the species."

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway (Clint Eastwood)
2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division
Heartbreak Ridge

"Rugby League is a simple game played by simple people. Rugby Union is a complex game played by w@**ers" Laurie Daley, ex Austalian Rugby League International. :!:

Colour Sergeant Bourne : "Patrols are back. Zulus gone ... all of 'em. It's a miracle."

Lt. John Chard : "If it's a miracle Colour Sergeant, then it's a short box chamber .45 Martini Henri miracle."

Colour Sergeant Bourne : "And a bayonet Sir, with some guts behind it."

Zulu

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong."

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Party Political Broadcast, London, 26 August 1950

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
My Early Life, Chapter 9

"The nation had the lion's heart. I had the luck to give the roar."

Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Said on his 80th birthday

"The nation had the Pig's guts. I had the luck to give the grunt."

Cap'n Pugwash
Master and Commander of the Black Pig

"The cake is a lie"

Unattributed - presumably from former Portal test subject, Aperture Science.

“I got there fustest with the mostest.”

Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-77) Confederate General

Popular misquotation of his explanation of his success in capturing Murfreesboro; his actual words were, “I just took the short cut and got there first with the most men.”

A Civil War Treasury (B. Botkin)

"Life is like a box of chocolates."

Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks)

Forrest Gump