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.
BORIS JOHNSONI 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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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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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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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 friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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