Sense and Senility Quotes

Sense and Senility is a TV program that appeared on TV in 1970 . Sense and Senility ended in 1970.

Sense and Senility Quotes

• (Prince George) "Mr. Thicky-Black-Thicky-Adder-Thicky."

• (Baldrick) "My uncle Baldrick was in a play once."
• (Blackadder) "Really?"
• (Baldrick) "Yeah, it was called "Macbeth"."
• (Blackadder) "And what did he play?"
• (Baldrick) "Second codpiece. Macbeth wore him in the fight scenes."
• (Blackadder) "So he was a stunt codpiece?"
• (Baldrick) "Yeah."
• (Blackadder) "Did he have a large part?"
• (Baldrick) "Depends who was playing Macbeth."

• (Blackadder) "Last year when we went to see 'Julius Caesar', just as Brutus was about to stab Caesar the Prince cried out, "Look behind you, Mr. Caesar.""

• (Baldrick) "You look smart, Mr Blackadder. Going somewhere nice?"
• (Blackadder) "No. I'm off to the theatre."
• (Baldrick) "Don't you like it then?"
• (Blackadder) "No I don't. A lot of stupid actors strutting around shouting, with their chests thrust out so far you'd think their nipples were attached to a pair of charging elephants. And the worst thing about it is having to go with Prince Mini-Brain."
• (Baldrick) "What, doesn't he like it either?"
• (Blackadder) "Oh, no. He loves it. The problem is he doesn't realise it's made up."

• (Anarchist) "Right, everybody out. Smash the Spinning Jenny. Burn the Rolling Rosalind. Destroy the Going-up-and-down-a-bit-and-then-moving-along Gertrude. And death to the stupid Prince who grows fat on the profits."
• (Prince George) "I say, how exciting. This play's getting better and better. Bravo. Bravo."
• (Blackadder) "It's not a play anymore, sir. Put the bomb down and make your way quietly to the exit."
• (Prince George) "Blackadder, you old thing, your problem is you can't tell when something's real and when it's not."

• (Blackadder) "They do say, Mrs M, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are, of course, wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork into your head."

• (Blackadder) "Actors are very superstitious. On no account mention the word "Macbeth" this evening, alright?"
• (Baldrick) "Why not?"
• (Blackadder) "It brings them bad luck, and it makes them very unhappy."
• (Baldrick) "Oh. So you won't be mentioning it either?"
• (Blackadder) "No. Well, not very often."

• (Mossop) "-- lest you continue in your quotations and mention the name of the "Scottish Play"."
• (Keanrick) "Oh-ho -- never fear, I shan't do that."
• (Blackadder) "By the "Scottish Play", I assume you mean Macbeth."
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Aaahh."
• (Blackadder) "What was that?"
• (Keanrick) "We were exorcising evil spirits. Being but a mere butler, you will not know the great theatre tradition that one does never speak the name of the "Scottish Play"."
• (Blackadder) "What, Macbeth ?"
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Ohhh."
• (Blackadder) "Good lord, you mean you have to do that every time I say Macbeth ?"
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Owwww."
• (Mossop) "Will you please stop saying that. Always call it the "Scottish Play"."
• (Blackadder) "So you want me to say the "Scottish Play"?"
• (Keanrick) "Yes."
• (Blackadder) "Rather than Macbeth ?"
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Owwwwww."
• (Prince George) "For heaven's sake, what is all this hullabaloo, all this shouting and screaming and yelling blue murder? Why -- it's like that play we saw the other day, what was it called -- umm --"
• (Blackadder) "Macbeth, sir?"
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Owwwwww."
• (Prince George) "No, no, it was called Julius Caesar."
• (Blackadder) "Ah, yes, of course. Julius Caesar -- not Macbeth."
• (Keanrick) "Aahhhhh. Hot potato, orchestra stalls, Puck will make amends."
• (Keanrick) "Owwwwww."

• (Baldrick) "My uncle Baldrick was in a play once."
• (Blackadder) "Really?"
• (Baldrick) "Yeah, it was called Macbeth."
• (Blackadder) "And what did he play?"
• (Baldrick) "Second codpiece. Macbeth wore him in the fight scenes."
• (Blackadder) "So he was a stunt codpiece."
• (Baldrick) "Yes."
• (Blackadder) "Did he have a large part?"
• (Baldrick) "Depends who was playing Macbeth."

• (Blackadder) "Gentlemen, I've come with a proposition."
• (Mossop) "How dare you, sir. You think just because we're actors, we sleep with everyone."
• (Blackadder) "I think, being actors, you're lucky to sleep with anyone."

• (Blackadder) "Disease and deprivation stalk our land like -- two giant stalking things."

• (Baldrick) "Mr Blackadder always says, "When the going gets tough, the tough hide under the table.""

• (Prince George) "I must say, Blackadder, that was a close shave. Why would an anarchist possibly want to kill you?"
• (Blackadder) "Actually, I think it's you he was trying to kill, sir."
• (Prince George) "Oh hogwash. How could you possibly think that?"
• (Blackadder) "Well my suspicions were first aroused by his use of the words "death to the stupid prince"."

• (Blackadder) "Four minutes, twenty-two seconds. Baldrick, you owe me a groat."

• (Keanrick) "Why, your very posture tells me, "Here is a man of true greatness.""
• (Blackadder) "Either that or "Here are my genitals, please kick them.""

• (Blackadder) "All I can say is he'd better watch out. One more foot wrong and the contract between us, will be as broken as this milk jug."
• (Baldrick) "But that milk jug isn't broken."
• (Blackadder) "You really do walk into these things don't you?"

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