I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t aim to offend.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
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For me, it’s about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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There’s one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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