You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
BORIS JOHNSONHumanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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