Eric Idle Movie Quotes & Lines – 30 Classics (+ Audio)

Updated: Jul 4, 2026

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1 Any idea how it happened? -None whatsoever. Complete mystery to me. Woke up just now, one sock too many.

In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

2 Mr. Death is a reaper. -The Grim Reaper. -Hardly surprising in this weather.

John Cleese; Eric Idle in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

3 Message for you, sir.

As Sir Robin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

4 Are you saying Ni to that old woman?

As Sir Robin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

5 Oh, what I could be if there was only me. Oh, what I'd do if I didn't have you.

Don Rickles as Cornwall; Eric Idle as Devon in Quest for Camelot (1998)

6 Well, we did do the nose. And the hat. But she is a witch.

As Sir Robin in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

7 Provided the movement never forgets that it is the inalienable right of every man... -Or woman. -To rid himself. -Or herself. -Agreed. -Thank you, brother. -Or sister. -Or sister. -Where was I? -I think you finished. -Oh, right.

Eric Idle; Michael Palin in Monty Python's Life of Brian

8 But you can't have babies. -Don't you oppress me. -I'm not oppressing you. You haven't got a womb. Where is the fetus gonna gestate? You're gonna keep it in a box?

John Cleese; Eric Idle in Monty Python's Life of Brian

9 What? -The People's Front of Judea. Splitters! -We're the People's Front of Judea! -Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front. -People's Front!

John Cleese; Eric Idle in Monty Python's Life of Brian

10 No, it is a sign that, like him, we must think not of the things of the body, but of the face and head.

In Monty Python's Life of Brian