Quotes By Boris Johnson

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

We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.

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

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

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.

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

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

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

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

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.

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

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

I'm a one-nation Tory.

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