Harry Enfield Quotes

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Harry Enfield

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 30, 1961

Men seem to relate to boys better, sharing their interests in whizzing about and football and car-cars and other moronic activities.

Harry Enfield

I don't understand why the Euro-sceptics think monetary union will lead to a federal Europe. It seems to me that the opposite is the case.

Harry Enfield

The history of post-war Britain shows us that we are lousy at running our economy. We need someone to do it for us.

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It's about time we stopped being so insecure and defensive and admitted that the Germans are better at economics than us. We like laughing and they like maths.

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Like all extremely nice people, I tend to be on the side of the underdog, or at least feel sorry for him.

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You need a lot of words to say anything in German.

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What better way to attract an audience than to get everyone to shout 'Outrage!' at the size of your advance?

Harry Enfield

America exports its culture world-wide but with us they don't have to surmount a language barrier, and therefore they swamp us. While other European cultures are protected from erosion by their languages, ours is not.

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When looking for an Oscar-winning performance Americans demand not mental instability but mental disability, ie Tom Hanks playing a simpleton or Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man. The Yanks are suckers for such patronising tosh.

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I like Hugh Grant.

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I tend to think that these white supremacists like Terreblanche, the boneheads of the BNP and Bernard Manning are all so revoltingly ugly and unpleasant that they make the best possible advertisement for mixed marriages. Would you prefer your daughter to look like Naomi Campbell or Bernard Manning?

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If the continual cutting back of public services has led to low public morale then simply pass a few feel-good Acts to force people to be happy.

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I'm trying to stop reading the Daily Telegraph. I've read it for several years because I prefer to read a pro-Government newspaper that slags the Government off, which the Telegraph frequently does, than an anti-government one or a trying-oh-so-hard-to-be-neutral one.

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Why is everyone so obsessed with attracting the young? The Telegraph, Radio 4 - everyone wants a younger audience when everyone knows the population is getting older and older, and that older people have more dosh than young people.

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The magistrate who originally sentenced Eric Cantona to prison said that millions of young people saw him as a role model and tried to copy his behaviour. I wonder if this is true.

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The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

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Public schoolboys are brought up to assume they should lead society, and Trotskyists know they are right about absolutely everything.

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I'm nothing like Michael Barrymore.

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Every day I get something in the post telling me to worry about something else. Worry mail is big business.

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I have dealings with a pension firm, an insurance company and a bank, and every day one of these institutions tries to worry me into buying something else. The bank wants to sell me a pension, the pension company wants to sell me insurance for my pension and the insurance company wants to insure my bank account.

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