Boris Johnson Quotes

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

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.

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.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

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

The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

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.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

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

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

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

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.

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.

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

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

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.

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

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

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

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

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

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

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

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.

Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

You are part of our Great British family.

The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.