"You will probably have noticed that three of the defendants have very wisely chosen to exercise their inalienable right not to go into the witness box to answer a lot of impertinent questions. I will merely say that you are not to infer from this anything other than that they consider the evidence against them so flimsy that it was scarcely worth their while to rise from their seats and waste their breath denying these ludicrous charges..."
Peter Edward Cook was an English comedian, actor, satirist, playwright and screenwriter. He was the leading figure of the British satire boom of the 1960s, and he was associated with the anti-establishment comedic movement that emerged in the United Kingdom in the late 1950s.
"All right, you great git, youve asked for it. Ill cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. Ill fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. Ill make it so noisy and disgusting that even youll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder youve so few friends; youre unbelievable!"
"I drift very easily into becoming E. L. Wisty. I’ve always felt very closely identified with that sort of personality. He is a completely lost creature, he never works, never moves, has no background and suspects everybody is peering at him and trying to get his secrets out of him. Ive never met the man; he came out of me. I’d feel a lot easier if I’d met him and imitated him, as a matter of fact."
"Weve all got royal blood in our veins, you know. Its the best place for it in my view. Weve all got a little bit of royal blood in our veins, were all in line for the succession, and if nineteen million, four hundred thousand, two hundred and eight people die, Ill be king tomorrow. Its not very likely but its a nice thought and helps keep you going."
"We shall move about in peoples rooms and say, "Excuse me, we are the World Domination League. May we dominate you?" Then, if they say "Get out," of course we give up. Well, you have to give up if youre told to get out."
"You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained... I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction... I can get all that at home."
"You are now to retire, as indeed should I, carefully to consider your verdict of "Not Guilty"."