Charles Prentiss quotes from Absolute Power

Charles

(to his bank manager) How far will you extend my overdraft, for the exclusive, unrestrained, or possibly restrained, use of my body?

Charles

You have that talent peculiar to the mediocre, of stating the obvious in a way that brings out the genius in a genius.

Charles

(reading) "Congratulations, as usual. Appreciate what a difficult assignment this was, and have doubled your fee. Please eat this e-mail."

Charles

Cuff O, backwards.

Charles

I shall never forget that night I took you to Gordon Ramsay's. What was it you said? "If that bow-tied ponce serves me the squid ink, I will put it in a squid pen and write squid bollocks".

Charles

If there's one thing better than having a first-class mind, it's being a first-class bastard.

Charles

E-mail Clive: "see me to be sacked".

Charles

Well, I thought to myself, "What can I get for a Labour spin doctor?" And then I realised: a large piece of meretricious tat. Something eye-catching, but worthless.

Charles

Martin, when a potential new client comes to this office, you do not stand behind him with a sign saying "Loony Warning".

Charles

Nigel, are you familiar with your arse? Because your wife has just saved it. Now get us a drink.

Charles

Well, if you want loyalty, buy a dog.

Charles

Martin, you made this bed. Prepare to eat it!

Charles

There's nothing even Prentiss-McCabe can teach this Prime Minister about deception. Except how to do it properly, I suppose.

Charles

Clive, what in the name of aquatic insanity possessed you to introduce a shoal of piranha between Putney and Mortlake?!

Charles

Lionel Blackmore could start a punch-up in a room full of nuns.