Amusing Christmas period quotes from the telly and the radio

We already have a 'Samizdata quote of the day' for today, but, yes, here are seven more. I wrote them down over last Christmas, and then forgot about them. Ant then today, I encountered them again. They still make me smile, so here they all are for you good people.

First, a couple of things said by Patsy Stone, the amazing fashion monstress played by Joanna Lumley in Absolutely Fabulous. Over Christmas there were two new episodes. So much for my "complete" box set that I found in a charity shop last year.

On the terribleness of the recent riots in London:

Oh I don't know. Nothing wrong with a bit of extreme shopping.

On the drugs issue:

Have you seen the price of methadone? It's cheaper to buy crack.

Also on a fashion theme, from one of those Father Christmas in a New York Shopping Store movies, said by the Lady Boss:

I don't know if large women care what they look like, but if they do, let's exploit them.

That's the spirit. And depending on how the project turns out:

This is either the smartest decision I've ever made or the stupidest decision you've ever made.

Which has to be a very old joke, but like I say, it made me smile.

Next, this from the Headmistress of St Trinian's (played by Rupert Everett), about her (I think) brother (also Rupert Everett), to her brother's daughter:

Your father has a short memory masquerading as a clear conscience.

Finally a couple of overhearings from BBC Radio 3. Here's something from the recently deceased Gustav Leonhardt, about and with whom they did a commemorative Music Matters show, featuring a recorded interview with him. Leonhardt is explaining why the biographical details of the lives of the great composers don't interest him that much, only their music.

When you meet a genius, you don't know he is one. He is only a genius when he is at work.

Finally, here is Professor Robert Winston, ruminating on science, in between introducing some of his classical favourites with Rob Cowan:

Uncertainty is a good place to be. It worries me when governments take a very assertive position on the basis of very weak evidence and then stick to it.

The phrase "climate science" was never uttered, but you got the distinct feeling that this particular Public Voice is thinking that CAGW is a band-waggon that it now makes more sense to get off rather than to shout from. I must remember to email the Bishop about that.

Something tells me that the CAGW-ists will, any year now, start having short memories masquerading as clear consciences.