186 Quotes by Boris Johnson

I’m a one-nation Tory.

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

Take the one about the time he was sitting next to a clean-living Methodist bishop – at a reception, allegedly, in Canada – when a good-looking young waitress came up and offered them both a glass of sherry from a tray. Churchill took one. But the bishop said, ‘Young lady, I would rather commit adultery than take an intoxicating beverage.’ At which point Churchill beckoned the girl, and said, ‘Come back, lassie, I didn’t know we had a choice.

Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity. It has been said that 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.

London is – after Athens and Rome – the third most influential city in history.

I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.