Add a drop of lavender to milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you’re laughing at it.
BILL BAILEYIf you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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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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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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I tend to go through periods worrying, “Where am I going, I can’t see a way out of this,” and it becomes quite stressful. But sometimes you have to take a bet on yourself.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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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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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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The reason we’d stopped was that the buffet car was on fire, that was the reason we stopped. One of the giant biscuits spontaneously combusted out of boredom.
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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