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”
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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I don’t aim to offend.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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I’m not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
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When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
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I don’t understand art-speak. My pictures are big doodles. I’m amazed what people come up with when they look at them.
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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Don’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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