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.
BORIS JOHNSONI 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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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 love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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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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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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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.
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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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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