Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
BILLY CONNOLLYI was brought up as a Catholic. I’ve got A-level guilt.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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There’s nothing like it, but it’s not as good as you think it’s going to be. . . . I was disappointed because there are records of people finding things that have been there for years. I was hoping for a shirt button, or my club’s badge – but not a sausage.
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A lot of people are too easily offended. Religious people, for instance. They’ve been offending other people for centuries.
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Oh aye…my Father would thrash me every now and then. He’d talk while he did it too! He’d hit me and shout, ‘Have ye had enough?’ Had enough? Whit kind of question is that? ‘Why, Father, would another kick in the balls be out of the question???’
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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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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When people say “it’s always the last place you look”. Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you’ve found it?
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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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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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I hate those earnest TV documentaries that are the world according to people with glasses who know better than you.
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I don’t think I’ve ever died on stage. I’ve had jokes that died on stage. I’ve told a joke and absolutely nothing. They didn’t know it was the end of the joke.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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I used to be a folk singer, but I was… dreadful. I had a voice like a goose farting in the fog.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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