The world needs more Edwin Morgans, people who can take the language and swing it round their heads and don’t care what you think.
BILLY CONNOLLYBehind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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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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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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The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
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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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[To audience members who were arriving late] You haven’t missed a thing, I was just killing time ’til you got here.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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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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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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If you want to lose a bit of weight, don’t eat anything out of a bucket.
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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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I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce.
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didn’t even know there were specialist zombie magazines and clubs. I heard the other day that a radio station had asked people if they`d made preparations for an attack by zombies, and a staggering number of people replied yes!
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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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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Whenever I wear something expensive it looks stolen.
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