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Rab C Nesbitt RAB C NESBITT

Rab C Nesbitt Quotes

Rab: “Mary, you and I go back a long way to let a pound of dead meat come between us.”
Mary: “Let's leave our sex life out of this.”

Rab: “It's not Buckfast that sign should say, it should say Fastbuck”

After meeting his Spanish double on a holiday to Benidorm...
Rab: “There's nothing that restores yer faith more in human nature than meeting some poor bastard that's just as mad as yourself.”

Rab and Jamesie are at a ceilidh and are wearing kilts but Rab is wearing his sporran under his kilt...
Rab: “It's a bliddy site more fun worn inside than out.”

Rab: “Some place Govan eh?, where else can you get a fish supper at 9:OO AM?, simple, just steal it off a drunk that's been lyin pished outside a close all night.”

Rab and Mary are seeking therapy after their children are taken into care...
Therapist: “Mr Nesbitt, were you close to your father?”
Rab: “Not unless I could help it, otherwise I would get a boot about the melt, but I always remember the friction burns he left on the carpet when I handed over my first wage packet.”
Mary: [shocked] “My God” [to the therapist] “It's weird that you can live with someone for so long but you never really know them”
Rab: “Didn't you know my father was an alky?”
Mary: “Oh aye, but I didn't know you had a job!”

When Rab accepts to be the surrogate father of Jamesie and Ella's unborn child, Jamesie asks Rab to put his sperm in a small container...
Rab: “Changing times eh?, in the old days, all the neighbours wanted you to fill they're cups with was sugar.”
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