Quote #15

'It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don't know.'

More from Fred Dibnah

  1. 'If you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker.'
  2. 'The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on''.
  3. 'Steeplejacking's a bit of a spasmodic job, so you can play with your steam engine instead. It's a bit like being very rich.'
  4. 'Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.'
  5. 'Anybody who destroys anything made of stone should be prosecuted. It is not all beautiful, but it took a man all day to make one stone.'
  6. 'By 'eck it were grand.'
  7. 'I'm just a bum who climbs chimneys.'
  8. 'Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers'

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