Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
BILLY CONNOLLYPolitically correct is the language of cowardice.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t aim to offend.
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My advice to you, if you want to lose a bit of weight: don’t eat anything that comes in a bucket. Buckets are the kitchen utensils of the farmyard.
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When you involved in an accident and someone asks “are you alright?” Yes fine thanks, I’ll just pick up my limbs and be off.
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People die all the time. It’s just that you’re not around.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
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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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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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Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, “Did you fall?” He said, “No, I’m tryin’ to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket.”
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Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you’ve blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that… wrll, it’s because the national anthem is boring.
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I became a welder. I was actually becoming an Engineer and I joined the wrong queue. And so I became a welder, without knowing what a welder was.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce – my main thrust was the body and its functions and malfunctions – the absurdity of the thing.
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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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