Gyles Quotes

#1. On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: 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

#2. 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

#3. When men give up saying what is charming," Oscar answered, "they give up thinking what is charming. I hope I'll never do that.

Gyles Brandreth

#4. People did what conservatives always did when the going got tough: they started a new group.

Rick Perlstein

#5. John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly.

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#6. You will return to Lord Gyles and inform him that he does not have my leave to die.

George R R Martin

#7. both were writers of high ambition, with

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

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#9. Every Holmes must have his Watson

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#10. Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

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#11. You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.

Mariah Carey

#12. 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

#13. In life there are two types of people: those who catch the waiter's eye and those who don't.

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

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#15. One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.

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

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#17. He loved what he did, he loved being on Countdown - he just loved life

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#18. KATH: (Katherine) BRENT, daughter of Ed: Brent, dee'd., 300 acs. Northumberland Co., N.E. upon Quiough 421 Riv., S.E. upon land of Capt. Giles Brent. 9 Dec. 1662, p. 79, (554). (Capt. Gyles Brent, 4 May 1653, assigned to sd. Edm: Brent & by him given by will to sd. Kath.)

Nell Marion Nugent

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

Gyles Brandreth

#20. My tombstone would someday read I died keeled over at my computer writing a screenplay or a business plan.

Gabriel Campisi

#21. You'll recall," said Sickert, brushing dust from his trousers with the back of his hand, "that a year or two ago I was chased through the back streets of King's Cross by a posse of prostitutes all crying 'Jack the Ripper!' after me.

Gyles Brandreth

#22. Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.

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#23. As you will be aware, gentlemen, I have made it my life's work to entertain the working classes, enrage the middle classes, and fascinate the aristocracy - but I do believe I've just met my match. Accrington 'Arry here is in a class of his own, beyond my reach.

Gyles Brandreth

#24. I'll be better, so I won't want it to hurt anymore.

Nina LaCour

#25. You have shown your usual cunning in getting up just in time for a meal.

J.R.R. Tolkien