It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
BORIS JOHNSONHitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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 want to win and I want to be in office.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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