21 Quotes by Boris Johnson and I love the first one

Today I’ve curated some of the many quotes by Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson is undoubtedly one of the most colourful characters in recent British politics, so I thought it would be interesting to reflect on what he’s had to say.

He’s always been a controversial character, and he’s probably loved and loathed in equal measure. However, he’s not a man easily ignored. Certainly, he can be relied upon occasionally to offer us a memorable quote.

So here are 21 quotes by Boris Johnson and my particular favourite is definitely No 1. I’m sure when it comes to cake, we’re all pro-having it and pro-eating it.

Enjoy them all, and please feel free to share them with your friends.

Quotes by Boris Johnson (1-7)

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’ve always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

Quotes by Boris Johnson (1-14)

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

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

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

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

I’m not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.

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.

Quotes by Boris Johnson (15-21)

What I really think about Banksy is I think he’s a genius; he’s a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he’s got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.

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.

The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician are in trying to decide what is idealism, and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

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.

I’m not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger-wagging and ticking people off for the occasional colourful use of language.

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.

It’s not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

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