Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Terence Graham Parry Jones (1 February 1942 - 21 January 2020) was a British comedian, actor, screenwriter, film director, political commentator, children's writer and Chaucerian scholar. He is probably best known as a former Python.

See also:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
And Now For Something Completely Different
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Life of Brian
The Meaning of Life
Labyrinth

Quotes

• A Horse, a Bucket and a Spoon.
  • Graham Chapman A Liar's Autobiography (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 152.
  • Jones' suggested title for the show that was eventually named Monty Python's Flying Circus.

• It took 200 years for the Crusaders to create [this] Muslim fanaticism. It was the exact imitation of Christian intolerance.
  • Crusades, episode 4; first broadcast in January 1995. Co-written with Alan Ereira.

• Saying "We will destroy terrorism" is about as meaningful as saying: "We shall annihilate mockery."
  • The Daily Telegraph, December 1, 2001.

• What is meant by: "We mustn't give in to the terrorists"? We gave in to them the moment the first bombs fell on Afghanistan.
  • The Daily Telegraph, December 1, 2001.

• Ludicrous concepts…like the whole idea of a "war on terrorism". You can wage war against another country, or on a national group within your own country, but you can't wage war on an abstract noun. How do you know when you've won? When you've got it removed from the Oxford English Dictionary?
  • The Observer, February 23, 2003.

• Why do I feel so exercised about what we think of the people of the Middle Ages?...I guess it's because so many of their voices are ringing vibrantly in my ears – Chaucer's, Boccaccio's, Henry Knighton's, Thomas Walsingham's, Froissart's, Jean Creton's... writers and contemporary historians of the period who seem to me just as individual, just as alive as we are today. We need to get to know these folk better in order to know who we are ourselves.
  • The Observer, February 8, 2004.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Terry Jones on Wikipedia
• Media related to Terry Jones on Wikimedia Commons