Robert Morley

Robert Morley (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was a British actor who, often in supporting roles, was regularly cast as the archetypal English gentleman representing the Establishment.

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work; I merely inflict myself upon the public.

Quotes

• The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.
  • The Observer (20 April 1958), as quoted in "Death of Baron De Kalb" (1849), by Benjamin Franklin Ells, The Western Miscellany, Volume 1, p. 233.

• Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work; I merely inflict myself upon the public.
  • Films and Filming vol. 8 (1961)

• Fat men get knocked over by buses no earlier, nor later, than thin men. And I, for one, have buried most of my thin friends.
  • Explaining why he never tried to lose weight.
  • Toledo Blade (August 20, 1978)