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.
BILLY CONNOLLYI’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I don’t aim to offend.
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I’m a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world’s a wonderful. I just think that some people are pretty badly represented. But when you speak to the people themselves they’re delightful. They all want so little.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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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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[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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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.
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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
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Paddy was in the delivery room when the midwife handed him a black baby. “Is this yours?” she asked “probably” said Paddy “she burns everything else”
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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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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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The more you know the less the better.
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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 Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?
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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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