The night before Tilbury, the Cordon Bleu gourmet dinner turned out Cordon Brown. Six out of ten to the chef for trying and ten out of ten to us for eating it. Spike Milligan Read Quote
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe’s singing until somebody told me that it wasn’t a joke. Spike Milligan Read Quote
One important thing I recall about India was that it was quiet. It was never noisy in the way that life was noisy in London. Spike Milligan Read Quote
I had stopped going to church the moment I joined the Regiment. No more could my mother nag me into God’s presence. Spike Milligan Read Quote
The lunacy continues and has every chance of becoming a way of life unless we stop it soon. Men are getting so used to wars that the psychiatric wing of the RAMC are planning how to break the news to the men when the war is over. Spike Milligan Read Quote
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry. Spike Milligan Read Quote
My parents always threw everything out, gave everything away. I’m surprised they never threw me away. That’s why I’ve always kept my children’s things. My parents had no feelings for belongings. Spike Milligan Read Quote
My father being a soldier, every time I saw soldiers marching – ‘Well,’ I thought, ‘my father’s that,’ and these soldiers were always looking magnificent. And I thought they were powerful; they were all-powerful. I knew that they were an elite in India. Spike Milligan Read Quote
It was implanted in me that I came from a different class – an elevated class. I was cushioned by servants. I don’t remember doing anything for myself. I only played and went to school. Spike Milligan Read Quote
