Filming a pirate film is always good fun, with ships and indecent clothing.

- Eric Idle

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

- Eric Idle

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

- Eric Idle

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

- Eric Idle

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally s…

- Eric Idle

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

- Eric Idle

Bear in mind the simple rule, X squared to the power of two minus five over the seven point eight three times nineteen is approximately equal to the …

- Eric Idle

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

- Eric Idle

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate

- Eric Idle