Dave Allen



Dave Allen (6 July 1936 – 10 March 2005) was an Irish comedian.

Compilation by the BBC 11 March, 2005

 * I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realise it's me.


 * I don't go out of my way to be outrageous, I just go out of my way to look at things.


 * I've stopped smoking... I think the cost was a lot of it, and not being able to breathe. I first gave up smoking when I was eight.


 * We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A fucking clock.


 * If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.


 * I'm an Atheist...thank God.