Quotes by Graham Chapman

About Graham Chapman:

Graham Arthur Chapman was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python. He played authority figures such as the Colonel and the lead role in two Python films, Holy Grail and Life of Brian.
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All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

Graham Chapman

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

Graham Chapman

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Graham Chapman

I fart in your general direction.

Graham Chapman

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet! You can't expect to wield supreme powe...

Graham Chapman

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

Graham Chapman

Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

Graham Chapman

When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled.

Graham Chapman

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Graham Chapman

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Graham Chapman

Health care does not worry me a great deal. I've been impressed by some wonderful old people.

Graham Chapman

Stormy in love, stormy in interviews, breakfast in bed - that's me, love.

Graham Chapman

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Graham Chapman

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

Graham Chapman

Dressing up as decrepit old ladies, and even decrepit young ladies, was one of our staples.

Graham Chapman

I can't talk to a man who bears an undeserved animosity towards ferrets.

Graham Chapman

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Graham Chapman

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

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Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark

Graham Chapman

NI! Oh no! Not ni!

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Author Bio

  • NameGraham Chapman
  • DescriptionEnglish comedian, writer and actor
  • AliasesGray Chapman
  • BornJanuary 8, 1941
  • DiedOctober 4, 1989
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComedian; Writer; Actor; Screenwriter