Vivian Stanshall (1943 – 1995)
Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
You got a light, mac? No...but I've got a dark brown overcoat.
Seems a novel enough way to commit suicide. Pass me m' pistol. See if I can't bring the blighter down in the lake.
Do have an unusual day, won't you?
If you're going to say anything filthy, please speak clearly.
That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it.
English as tuppence, changing yet changless as canal-water, nestling in green nowhere, armoured and effete, bold flag-bearer, lotus fed Miss Havishambling, opsimath and eremite, feudal-still reactionary Rawlinson End. The story so far. (Dot dot dot.)
Wrestle poodles...and win!
I've never met a man I didn't mutilate.
Frankly, once I've eaten a thing, I don't expect to see it again.
I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!
Gentlemen, I am a bulldog, and you will find my bark is worse!
If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.
... gauzes of filmy Fellini ...
Mercifully, Henry hit him with the soft end of the pistol.
Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?
Vivian Stanshall, about three o'clock in the morning, Oxfordshire, 1973, goodnight...
A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by a tramp.
And, looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes. Nice!
Five years ago I was a four-stone apology — today I am two separate gorillas.
Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ...