Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBEwas a comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth16 April 1918
CityAhmednagar, India
CountryIreland
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke.
Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!
Said Hamlet to Ophelia, I'll draw a sketch of thee. What kind of pencil shall I use? 2B or not 2B?
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.