If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
BILL BAILEYToughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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What I’d like to do now – well, what I’d like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.
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My 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.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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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.
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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The way we live in the West we live like kings. People moan about this and that in Britain but we have running water, electricity, security and a rule of law and so many people in the world don’t have these.
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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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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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