Quote #8

'I set out as a steeplejack in my youth to preserve chimneys. I've finished by knocking most of them down.'

More from Fred Dibnah

  1. 'Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.'
  2. 'Height gives you a wonderful feeling of grandeur. You're the king of the castle up here.'
  3. 'We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other.'
  4. 'I have a wash more now than I used to y'know... I have a shower everynight.'
  5. 'The modern world stinks.'
  6. 'I'm just a bum who climbs chimneys.'
  7. 'I realise that steam engines aren't everyone's cup of tea. But they're what made England great.'
  8. '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.'

All Fred Dibnah quotes