126 Quotes by Gyles Brandreth

On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly.

If you’d spent your life being called “Gyles Brandreth”, you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called “Bob”.

As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right.

Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. “I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

Punctuation is important, but the rules are changing. Spelling is important today in a way that it wasn’t when Shakespeare was a boy. Grammar isn’t set in stone.

In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter’s eye and those who don’t.

Playing games can contribute to making you happy, perhaps even without therapy.