Relaxed Empiricism — I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened.
BILL BAILEYI’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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Nostalgia: How long’s that been around?
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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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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Thank God for Darwin, eh?
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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.
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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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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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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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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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There we go, that’s it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
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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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Come to Belarus, where wild animals will steal your fruit
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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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At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time.
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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