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Peter Cook, né le 22 octobre 1936 à Southend-on-Sea au Royaume-Uni, est un architecte, théoricien et professeur britannique.

✵ 17. novembre 1937 – 9. janvier 1995
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Peter Cook: Citations en anglais

“We shall move about in people's 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 you're told to get out.”

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"The World Domination League" (1964)
E. L. Wisty

“We believe this to be the work of thieves, and I'll tell you why. The whole pattern is very reminiscent of past robberies where we have found thieves to be involved. The tell-tale loss of property — that's one of the signs we look for.”

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Peter Cook Beyond the Fringe

"The Great Train Robbery" (1964)
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)

“I am blind, but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as broil. I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.”

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"Blind", in Derek and Clive (Live) (1976)

“Well, it's always very difficult to say what prompts anybody to do anything, let alone getting underwater and teaching ravens to fly. But I think it probably all dates back to a very early age, when I was quite a young fellow. My mother, Lady Beryl Streeb-Greebling, you know, the wonderful dancer — 107 tomorrow and still dancing — she came up to me in the conservatory — I was pruning some walnuts — and she said "Arthur" — I wasn't Sir Arthur in those days — she said "Arthur, if you don't get underwater and start teaching ravens to fly, I'll smash your stupid face off," and I think it was this that sort of first started my interest in the whole business of getting them underwater.”

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"Ravens" (1965)
Not Only... But Also (1965 - 1970)

“Now, then, what'd you like to be first? Prime Minister? Oh, no — I've made that deal already.”

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Bedazzled (1967)

“Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.”

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The Princess Bride (1987)

“I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would.”

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Reflecting on Beyond the Fringe for the book The Complete Beyond The Fringe (1987)

“In the words of Marcel Proust — and this applies to any woman in the world — if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning… you're in.”

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Bedazzled (1967)

“It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers…”

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Bedazzled (1967)

“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

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Peter Cook Beyond the Fringe

"Sitting on the Bench" (1961)
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)

“The thing that makes you know that Vernon Ward is a good painter is if you look at his ducks, you can see the eyes follow you around the room.”

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"At The Art Gallery" (1965)
Not Only... But Also (1965 - 1970)

“Have you the wing?”

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The Princess Bride (1987)

“I could have been a Judge, but I never had the Latin for the judgin.”

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Peter Cook Beyond the Fringe

I never had it, so I'd had it, as far as being a judge was concerned... I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal.
"Sitting on the Bench" (1961)
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)

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