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"[walking in on Stanley Moon's failed attempt scuicide] Do hope this isn't an awkward moment."
"Suicide, really - that's the last thing you should try."
"You realize that suicide's a criminal offence. In less enlightened times, they'd have hung you for it."
"What terrible sins I have working for me. I suppose it's the wages."
"The garden of Eden was a boggy swamp just south of Croydon. You can see it over there."
"There was a time when I used to get lots of ideas; I thought up the Seven Deadly Sins in one afternoon. The only thing I've come up with recently is advertising."
"It's the standard contract. Gives you seven wishes in accordance with the mystic rules of life. Seven Days of the Week, Seven Deadly Sins, Seven Seas, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers"
"[while bargaining for Stanley's soul] What would you like to be? Prime Minister? Oh, no, wait, I've already signed that deal."
"And the magic word: Julie Andrews!"
"[to the pigeon, who is about to fly over a gentleman] Release your doo-dahs."
"[During a conversation about politics, a character with a severe speech impediment struggles to express a thought. He replies dismissively...] Well, that's easy for you to say."
"In the words of Marcel Proust; and this applies to any woman in the world. if you can stay up and listen with a fair degree of attention to whatever garbage, no matter how stupid it is, that they're coming out with, till ten minutes past four in the morning, you're in!"
"I lost Mussolini that way, all that work, then right at the end with the rope around his neck, he says, 'Scusi. Mille regretti,' and up he goes!""
"[to Lust] Pick your clothes up. You're due down at the Foreign Office."
"[spoken as a musical performer Drimble Wedge] You fill me with inertia."
"Everything I've ever told you has been a lie, including that."
"Don't ever believe anything I've said; believe me."
"Job was what you'd technically describe as a loony."
"Just putting a tiny little ventilation hole in this oil tanker."
"He's OMNIPRESENT. I'm just highly maneuverable."
"I've done a good deed. I gave that little twit his soul back. Wasn't that generous?"
"[to Saint Peter] Tell God not to go away. I'll be back in a minute. [runs after Stanley]"
"[last lines; raging against God, who is laughing in triumph] All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself. No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable."
"[reading the Faustian contract] I, Stanley Moon, hereinafter and in the hereafter to be known as "The Damned" - The damned?!"
"Peter Cook — The Devil/George"
"Dudley Moore — Stanley Moon"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.