Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
BILL BAILEYMy wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn’t just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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I’m a vegetarian, I’m not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they’re nearly fish aren’t they.
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, “Hullo, we’re out of milk. I say mother, where’s the milk?”
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Tonight’s show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn’t – haven’t made my mind up yet.
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Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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I’m English, and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise. Horrible chocolate; nasty little toy: a double-whammy of disillusionment! Sometimes I eat the toy out of sheer despair.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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Why do people want to swim with dolphins? The equivalent would be an Indonesian fellow coming over here, going up to a farmer and saying ‘Can I get in with the cows? I just fancy scuffling about with them.’
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This shed does not contain me.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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