Gyles Brandreth Quotes

• Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to be immortal you've got to be dead.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Food, Eight, Typewriters

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• 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".

  Gyles Brandreth

  Glasses, Broken, Simplicity

  "Genius" with Dave Gorman, BBC Radio 4, Series 3, Episode 4, October 22, 2007.

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• If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?

  Gyles Brandreth

  Giving, Twelve, Metrics

  Gyles Daubeney Brandreth (1982). “More joy of lex: an amazing and amusing Z to A and A to Z of words”, William Morrow & Co

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• Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Stars, Humble, Praise

  Gyles Brandreth (2008). “Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life

  Gyles Brandreth

  Crazy, Being Crazy, Countdown

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

  Gyles Brandreth

  Two, People, Problem

  Gyles Brandreth (2013). “Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations”, p.199, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Thinking, Government, Together

  The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, September 24, 2010.

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

  Gyles Brandreth

  Dresses, Appearance, Wells

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• In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table.

  Gyles Brandreth

  Party, Waiting, Rooms

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