A Stranger Here Myself Quotes

“Some burglars are vermin, they're no better than, well, investment bankers - there, I've said it.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan

“Have you ever wondered what it would be like', he said, 'if we could tear down the dividing walls of every house in the street? If we could see folk the way they really are after they stop talking their crappy garbage about the weather and go in and shut the door? Have you ever wondered that? If you ask me', he said,' every bastards half mental'.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan

“Once you realise you're never going to be a somebody, you have to kid yourself that being a nobody can still be interesting.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan

“Cancer gets a bad press but, fair do's, it's a truly egalitarian illness, unlike those stuck-up bastards ME and motor neurone.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan

“When a scumball turns on Songs of Praise he sees three hundred quantity surveyors warbling about 'My Lord in heaven', and he knows his name's not on the guest list.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan

“In the fifties there were no paedophiles. There were only simple honest-to-goodness child molesters.”
― Ian Pattison, A Stranger Here Myself: Being the Life Story and Revelations of Mister Rab C.Nesbitt of Govan