All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
BORIS JOHNSONLife isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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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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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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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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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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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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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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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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He wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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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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