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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s a fine line you have to tread because you don’t know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
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Wisdom isn’t an old guy on top of a mountain in a loin cloth. It isn’t an answer. It’s a question.
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It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he’s telling them all different things.
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There’s nothing better than a fight, especially when you’re watching it from a safe place. You can yell encouragement! Hit him with the left, he’s a big Jessie!
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The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.
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If I had a hammer, there’d be no more folksingers.
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I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started.
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Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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