Boris Johnson Quotes

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

Montreal is more Canadian and more British than Toronto. Toronto is more Canadian and more British than Winnipeg. Why? Because at Quebec thanks to the preponderance of the French language, you are better protected from the American invasion ...

This sort of thing may be tolerated by the French, but we are British, thank God.

It's unimaginable to meet a Pole or a German who does not know about the history of their country. But lots of English people don't know the difference between Britain and England.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

I love yoga. I can practice it wherever I am, at home, in my hotel room... I like playing tennis, too, but that's more of a hobby because I'm not very good!

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.

My life is really so much based in England.

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

England will be home for me. It always has been and always will be.

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

British girls are as temperamental as Americans.

I think Brits probably feel that Americans are more like us than vice-versa, if that makes sense. Because we get everything American over here in Britain, but yet there are things which are staunchly English that you guys don't have.

In Britain, it's bred into you, the idea that you can't really change anything, so why bother. When I went to school in America, it was the total opposite view - you, as an individual, can change anything and everything. It's how you're raised.

In Barcelona, things seem so different. For example, I know that it's traditionally the least Spanish city, but you'd never know they had a monarchy, coming here as a tourist - as opposed to the U.K., where the Queen is probably the best-known animal, vegetable and/or mineral going when it comes to overseas visitors.

American actors are all muscular, tanned, white teeth and they have this indestructible confidence. We British are all... Dare I say it? Pessimistic.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.