Fawlty Towers Quotes

Don't mention the War

Now is it possible for me to reserve the BBC2 channel for the duration of this televisual feast

You CAN see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky.

Excuse me, is this a piece of your brain?

You'll have to forgive him. He's from Barcelona

Ah well, if you don't like duck, you're rather stuck

My little nest of vipers

Do you really imagine, even in your wildest dreams, that a girl like this could possibly be interested in an aging, Brilliantine stick insect like you?

Took five hours from London. Couldn't find the freeway, had to take a little back street called the M5

Can't we get you on Mastermind, Sybil? Next contestant: Mrs Sybil Fawlty from Torquay. Specialist subject: the bleeding obvious.

I've laid it on the line for you time and time again! Right! So this is it! I'm gonna give you a damn good thrashing!

May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? The Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically?

This Basil's wife. This Basil. This smack on head

Why don't you have another vat of wine, dear?