It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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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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What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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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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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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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.
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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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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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If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
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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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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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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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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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 love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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 would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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