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BORIS JOHNSONThis 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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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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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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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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 would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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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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Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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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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