David Brent's homilies more memorable than classics

The babblings of television’s “chilled-out entertainer” David Brent are better known than quotes from the giants of English literature, a survey said today.

Figures showed 34% of 25- to 44-year-olds in the UK remembered the moment in BBC sitcom, The Office, when fictional manager Brent said: “Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.”