There’s an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it’s a different venue.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I’ve always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can’t tell to an audience.
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I love Los Angeles. It reinvents itself every two days.
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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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Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?
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I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.
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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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Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.
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A well-balanced person has a drink in each hand.
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I’ve always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I’m where I belong.
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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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Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.
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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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Tread gently on anyone who looks at you sideways.
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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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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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