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"(first lines) Ah, the Heckler and Koch G-36. Quite deadly in the right hands."
"A good agent doesn't need gadgets. The only gadgets I've ever needed are a sharp eye, a finely tuned ear and a slightly bigger brain than is strictly necessary."
"[After climbing into a castle via the sewage system] Oh, pull yourself together, it's only a little bit of poo!"
"The word 'mistake' sir is not one that appears in my dictionary."
"[Addressing the Archbishop of Canterbury, who he believes to be an impostor] Do you or do you not have tattooed on your bottom the words, "Jesus is coming – look busy"?"
"You might have taken me, but you'll never take England. Not as long as I have breath in my body or a bullet in my gun. [English pulls the trigger, but poo splurts out instead of a bullet]"
"I've been dropped into the Kalahari desert, carrying nothing but a toothbrush and a packet of Sherbet Lemons, and I still found my way to Bulawayo before Ramadan."
"Good morning, gentlemen! MI7 at your service."
"[after accidentally being crowned king; points to Sauvage after a pause] Arrest that man... and lock him away! [the crowd cheers as four guards take Sauvage away]"
"[speaking to Bough] Have you heard of the chanting of the Bedouin monks of the Almaghreb mountains?"
"[speaking to Lorna] Are you familiar with the shaman throat warblers of the Guatemalan Delta?"
"Clearly, the aptly-named English is a fool."
"[furious because his coronation has been interrupted by English, pulls a gun on crowd] Shut up! All this stupid little country has to do is stand in line and do what it's told for one miserable day! But can it do that? My fragrant French Ass it can!"
"He knows no fear. He knows no danger. He knows nothing."
"Prepare for British Intelligence."
"The star of Mr. Bean is now Her Majesty's most trusted agent."
"He's the kind of secret agent the Secret Service keeps secret."
"When it comes to secret agents, there's the smooth, there's the sophisticated... and there's Johnny English."
"Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English"
"John Malkovich as Pascal Sauvage"
"Natalie Imbruglia as Lorna Campbell"
"Ben Miller as Bough"
"Greg Wise as Agent One"
"Douglas McFerran as Carlos Vendetta"
"Steve Nicolson as Dieter Klein"
"Kevin McNally as Tony Blair"
"Tim Pigott-Smith as Pegasus"
"Oliver Ford Davies as the Archbishop of Canterbury"
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.