Withnail Quotes

We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane.

We've gone on holiday by mistake

I don't advise a haircut, man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.

BALLS! We want the finest wines available to humanity. We want them HERE, and we want them NOW.

You have done something to your brain. You have made it high. If I lay 10 mls of diazepam on you, it will do something else to your brain. You will make it low. Why trust one drug and not the other?

Withnail: This is ridiculous. Look at me, I'm 30 in a month and I've got a sole flapping off my shoe. Marwood: It'll get better, it has to. Withnail: Easy for you to say, luvvie, you've had an audition. Why can't I have an audition? It's ridiculous. I've been to drama school. I'm good looking. I tell you, I've a fuck sight more talent that half the rubbish that gets on television. Why can't I get on television? Marwood: Well, I don't know. It'll happen. Withnail: Will it? That's what you say. The only programme I'm likely to get on is the fucking news.

Here. Hare. Here. Here hare here!

Quote" is a verb. There's not much of a case for using it as a noun, because we already have one: "Quotation".

What was your favourite line in the movie?' Well I liked 'We've gone on holiday by mistake.' But my favourite line is 'I feel unusual.' Which made me laugh out loud when I wrote the line. I had this old Olivetti which I used to work on in the kitchen in Camden Town... and, uh... It was such fun writing this because... 'cause I didn't give a fuck. It wasn't like I... you know, later on someone's actually paying you to write something. Its much harder in a way, you know, because they've put the dough up... so you care more and you're more anxious about it. With Withnail and I I was just writing my life at the time, uh, and having a good laugh.

WITHNAIL: We’re about a yard from London, and going up a hill! Now, for Christ’s sake, stop this crate and let me out.