Quotes by Boris Johnson

“There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.”

“You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earthand yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploi...”

“My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to...”

“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.”

“The Remain campaign... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster tha...”

“If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, ...”

“My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.”

“It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.”

“The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.”

“One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.”

“In the words of Mr Thierry Coup of Warner Bros: 'We are taking the most iconic and powerful moments of the stories and putting them in an immersive environment. It is taking the theme park experien...”

“The tragedy of the stooge is that even if he thinks this through, he wants so much to believe that his relationship with the candidate is special that he shuts out the truth. The terrible art of th...”

“I accused men of being responsible for a social breakdown which is costing us all, as taxpayers, £9.1 billion per year, and which is producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and i...”

“With £90 billion currently spent on welfare, the great economic issues of our time are social. They are moral. And yet the Government is virtually incapacitated from utterance by its own bumbling.”

“The modern British male is useless. If he is blue collar, he is likely to be drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless and hopeless, and perhaps claiming to suffer from low self-esteem brought on by unemp...”

“Something must be found, first, to restore women's desire to be married. That means addressing the feebleness of the modern Briton, his reluctance or inability to take control of his woman and be h...”

“Weep O ye shirt-makers of Jermyn Street ye Cool Britannia tailors and whatever exists of human finer feeling In the Ministry of Sound, the tank-topped bumboys blub into their Pils. In the delicates...”

“On the other hand we don’t want our children being taught some rubbish about homosexual marriage being the same as normal marriage and that is why I am more than happy to support Section 28 ...”

“Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.”

“Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.”