Duel and Duality Quotes

Duel and Duality is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Duel and Duality completed its run in 1970.

Duel and Duality Quotes

• (Prince George) "Perhaps this disgusting fellow is some sort of blessing in disguise."
• (Blackadder) "If he is, it's a very good disguise."
• (Prince George) "After all, did the Lord not send Moses a lowly earthworm to comfort him in his torment?"
• (Blackadder) "Nope."
• (Prince George) "Well, it's the sort of thing he might have done."

• (Blackadder) "Don't even try to work it out Baldrick. Two people you know well have exchanged coats and now you don't know which is which."

• (Blackadder) "He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's "Mr. Madman" competition."

• (Blackadder) "Baldrick, does it have to be this way? Our valued friendship ending with me cutting you into long strips and telling the Prince that you walked over a very sharp cattle grid in an extremely heavy hat?"

• (Blackadder) "I'm afraid my ambitions stretch slightly further than professional idiocy in West London."

• (Prince George) "Ah, Blackadder. Notice anything unusual?"
• (Blackadder) "Yes sir. It's 11:30 in the morning and you're moving about. Is the bed on fire?"

• (Mad McAdder, Cousin of Edmund Blackadder, Esq) "I hear you have a cunning plan."
• (Blackadder) "I do, I do. I want you to take the place of the Prince Regent and kill the Duke of Wellington in a duel."
• (Mad McAdder, Cousin of Edmund Blackadder, Esq) "Aye, and what's in it for me?"
• (Blackadder) "Enough cash to buy the Outer Hebrides. What do you think?"
• (Mad McAdder, Cousin of Edmund Blackadder, Esq) "Fourteen shillings and six-pence? Well, it's tempting. But I've got an even better plan. Why don't I pretend to be the Duke of Wellington and kill the Prince of Wales in a duel? Then I could kill the King and be crowned with the ancient stone bonnet of McAdder."

• (Prince George) "I spent a night of ecstasy with a pair of Wellingtons and I loved it."

• (Blackadder) "One point, sir. I should, perhaps, warn you that while duelling I tend to put on my lucky wig and regimental accent."
• (Wellington) "That won't help you. It would take a homicidal maniac in a claymore and a kilt to get the better of me."
• (Blackadder) "Well that's handy."

• (Prince George) "It's like that story. "The Prince and the Porpoise.""
• (Blackadder) ""and the Pauper," sir."
• (Prince George) "Ah yes. "The Prince and the Porpoise and the Pauper.""

• (Baldrick) "Well my cousin Bert Baldrick, Mr Gainsborough's butler's dogsbody, says that he's heard that all portraits look the same these days, 'cause they're painted to a romantic ideal rather than as a true depiction of the idiosycratic facial qualities of the person in question."
• (Blackadder) "Your cousin Bert obviously has a larger vocabulary than you do, Baldrick."

• (Baldrick) "He's the spitting image of you."
• (Blackadder) "No, he's not. We're about as similar as two completely dis-similar things in a pod."

• (Wellington) "What in the name of Bonaparte's balls is this fellow doing?"

• (The Duke of Wellington) "There's only one way to win a campaign: shout, shout and shout again."

• (Blackadder) "I want to be remembered when I'm dead. I want books written about me. I want songs sung about me. And then hundreds of years from now I want episodes of my life to be played out weekly at half past nine by some great heroic actor of the age."
• (Baldrick) "Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard."
• (Blackadder) "Quite."

• (King George III) "Some people say I'm mad, and say the word "penguin" after each sentence. But I believe that we two can make Britain great, with you as the Prince Regent, and I as King Penguin."

• (Blackadder) "Ah, Mrs. Miggins. Am I to gather from your look of pie-eyed exhaustion and the globules of porridge hanging off the walls that my cousin McAdder has presented his credentials?"

• (Blackadder) "Sir, prince or pauper, when a man soils a Wellington, he puts his foot in it. This is not a joke. I do not find my name remotely funny and people who do end up dead."

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