I’ve always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.
BILLY CONNOLLYDon’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, “Has the bus come yet?”. If the bus came would I be standing here?
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There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
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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 used to have Mad Cow’s disease, but I’m alright Nooooooooow.
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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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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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Behind the proscenium arch, you can’t always hear what people in the audience are saying.
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When I read ‘Be real, don’t get caught acting,’ I thought, ‘How the hell do you do that?’.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Don’t tell me how to do my job. I don’t come to your workplace and tell you how to sweep up.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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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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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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