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Best Boris Quotes

Updated: Apr 1, 2022

Following our feature last Sunday on the best Trump quotes, it's now the turn of Boris Johnson. Look out for Vladimir Putin next Sunday!

Mural depicting Boris Johnson's face

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


My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.


I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.


Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, like the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.


I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.


My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.


The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.


It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.


Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.


We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.


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 all the way to Las Vegas and you didn’t misbehave.


My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.


If you missed OGN's favourite Trump quotes last weekend, here they are

 

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