Never trust people who’ve only got one book.
BILLY CONNOLLYI don’t know why I should have to learn Algebra… I’m never likely to go there.
More Billy Connolly Quotes
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Who discovered we could get milk from cows, and what did he think he was doing at the time?
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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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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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There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.
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A mate of mine has just told me he’s shagging his girlfriend and her twin, I said how can you tell them apart, he said “her brothers got a moustache!”
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So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
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If you give people a chance, they shine.
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I started to draw desert islands. They were just rough, shapes in the middle of the page. Then I began drawing shapes within those shapes and I was amazed how quickly the islands got better. It took off from there.
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Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
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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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I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.
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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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I’ve been a poser for f–ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.
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I always look skint. When I buy a Big Issue, people take it out of my hand and give me a pound.
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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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