Yellowbeard (1983)

Eric Idle: Commander Clement

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• Commander Clement : Twenty years ago today you were sentenced to jail.

  Yellowbeard : Yes, and now I'm due to released.

  Commander Clement : Yes. Or rather, no. You see, twenty years ago, no one was expected to live in jail for twenty years.

• Commander Clement : [about pile of dead bodies]  What happened?

  Betty : Plague!

  Commander Clement : Plague?

  Betty : All sudden like! Lucky I was out.

  Commander Clement : That man's got a sword in him!

  Betty : He fell on it.

• Harvey 'Blind' Pew : I may be blind, but I have acute 'earing.

  Commander Clement : I'm not interested in your jewellery, cloth eyes.

• Mansell : That wasn't strictly true, was it sir?

  Commander Clement : No, Mansell, it was what we in the British Navy call... a lie.