My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
BORIS JOHNSONAs a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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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 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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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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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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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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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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