Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
BILLY CONNOLLYThe religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Don’t vote, it only encourages them.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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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As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It’s something they reserve just for me.
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I used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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Without arts programmes there’s only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.
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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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Learn to feel sorry for music because, although it is the international language, it has no swear words.
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I think age is terribly overrated. You’re okay as long as you don’t grow up. By all means grow old, but don’t mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
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Acting is a different discipline. On stage I’m free to say what I please. But the change is very good for ya.
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I don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
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The more you know the less the better.
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I loathe hecklers. I haven’t got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone.
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I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.
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