Quote #10

Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): 'Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.'

More from Mel Brooks

  1. Count de Monet: 'It is said that the people are revolting' King Louis XVI (Mel Brooks): 'You said it. They stink on ice.'
  2. Other Street Merchant:'Nothing, I have absolutely nothing for sale!'
  3. Count de Monet (Harvey Korman) [consistently mispronounced as 'money']: 'Bearnaise, do we have any of those delicious raisins left?' Bearna…
  4. King Louis XVI [prior to his arrest]: 'It's good to be the king. (Also used in Robin Hood- Men In Tights and The Producers [Musical])'
  5. Josephus (Gregory Hines): 'I'm Josephus, and I'm the main course over at the Colosseum!'
  6. Tomas de Torquemada: 'It's better to lose your skullcap than your skull.'
  7. Railway Worker : 'You shifty nigger! They said you was hung!' Sheriff Bart : 'And they was right!'
  8. Moses (Mel Brooks): 'God has given us these fifteen- (after dropping one of the tablets)Oy. Ten-ten commandments!'

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