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.
BORIS JOHNSONAll the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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 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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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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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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Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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 love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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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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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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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.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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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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