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.
BILLY CONNOLLYThere’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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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.
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People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks that’s an image I really didn’t need.
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I can’t believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.
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I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That’s what girls do. I think I am a girl really.
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I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.
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American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head — supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.
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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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Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
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A fart is just your arse applauding.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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People who are willing to get off their arse to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.
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Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
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