The more you know the less the better.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They’re bastards, and they do it on purpose.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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 once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can’t fly
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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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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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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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I’m a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don’t eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.
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The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.
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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 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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If you haven’t heard a good rumour by 11:00am, start one.
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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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 one of a figure with two heads that somebody thought must be a comment on the state of matrimony. None of it is a comment on anything.
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Life is supposed to be fun. It’s not a job or occupation. We’re here only once and we should have a bit of a laugh.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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