Thursday, May 25, 2006

I've been waiting for an opportunity to use my favourite film quote of all time. There were one or two moments in my sojourn at the Publishers Association and quite a few at Macmillan but they're not bloggable. So I'm going to give it to you anyway. I suspect it only works in English, so apologies to non-native speakers. It comes from one of the great non-arthouse films, Carry on Cleo (original idea by William Shakespeare), and was spoken by the brilliant and camp Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar as the plotters encircle. The line was lifted from an earlier series, Take it from here, by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.

And the quote?

Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me.

As a commentator points out, it gives 'Et tu, Brute' decent competition.

5/25/2006 12:55:13 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
When I was at school about 100 years ago there was another..nderstanding it depends on how old you are as you need to remember the advert..
Richard 3. 'A Horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse..'
'Horse ? (Hoarse..) Go suck a Zube.'