Top 49 Whitehall Quotes
#1. Fourth, a telegram from brother Mycroft: 'Will visit at earliest possible convenience - great uproar in Whitehall. Mend quickly; your death would be most inconvenient at this time.
Lyndsay Faye
#2. Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.
Thomas Pynchon
#3. You're just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don't trust me and I don't trust you.
Prince Philip
#4. Lift the curtain and 'the State' reveals itself as a little group of fallible men in Whitehall, making guesses about the future, influenced by political prejudices and partisan prejudices, and working on projections drawn from the past by a staff of economists.
Enoch Powell
#5. Phelps, I want you to find Sir Dominic Hunter. I don't care if you have to drag him out of his damn office in Whitehall or from the deepest pits of hell, but do not come back here without him.
Vanessa Kelly
#6. We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.
Hugh Gaitskell
#7. Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to .. the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').
Anthony Sampson
#8. I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me.
Richard Crossman
#9. Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.
Munir Butt
#10. BBC3 even started their biggest shows, like Jack Whitehall's 'Bad Education,' they premiered on the iPlayer a week before it went on TV. I think it should always be at the forefront of what is fresh and exciting, and therefore it should be the first channel to exist online.
James Corden
#11. Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the 'awarding of the Order of the Boot.
Winston S. Churchill
#12. I hope people think of me as a bit older. I do have a beard. That makes me look very old.
Jack Whitehall
#13. I have got a fantastic life and I just like to get on with it, and I am quite a private person.
Jack Whitehall
#14. I acted at school but got very bad parts - things that they'd made up in Shakespeare plays like 'Guard 17' - so I wrote plays and gave myself parts, then I wrote sketches, then I did stand-up. Even in the school nativity I was the emu in the manger.
Jack Whitehall
#15. I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
Jack Whitehall
#16. Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
Jack Whitehall
#18. I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.
Jack Whitehall
#19. I wish I was a bit shorter, as I think shorter people have better walks. Freddie Fox, the actor, is shorter than me and has an amazing gait; and Tom Cruise has a brilliant run. I'm just gangly.
Jack Whitehall
#20. Ryder had her laptop. He had access to all of her saved porn. All of it. And there was a lot. Like, more than there reasonably should be.
Helena Hunting
#22. I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
Jack Whitehall
#23. I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
Jack Whitehall
#24. For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
Jack Whitehall
#26. I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.
Jack Whitehall
#27. If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
Jack Whitehall
#28. If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
Jack Whitehall
#29. I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know ... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
Jack Whitehall
#30. I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.
Jack Whitehall
#31. I was the first person in the world to audition for 'The Hobbit'. The casting director told me that when I went in. That's a lot of pressure, isn't it? The first person in the world.
Jack Whitehall
#32. Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?
Jack Whitehall
#33. Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
Jack Whitehall
#34. He threw his back out, which-- fair enough, I'd imagine my back would be a bit sore if I'd spent the last twenty years of my life with my head up my own ass.
Jack Whitehall
#35. I think people respect honesty rather than hiding it.
Jack Whitehall
#36. I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
Jack Whitehall
#38. When I'm on stage, I'm quite over the top - I'm quite flamboyant and camp.
Jack Whitehall
#39. I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
Jack Whitehall
#40. This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories ... if you lick it.
Jack Whitehall
#41. Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
Jack Whitehall
#42. My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall
#43. Once you start doing a lot, you don't ever want to stop working. It feels weird if you're not doing something.
Jack Whitehall
#44. Part of doing stand-up is to get things off your chest. It's a bit like being in a psychiatrist's chair - but more enjoyable.
Jack Whitehall
#45. When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.
Jack Whitehall
#46. I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
Jack Whitehall
#47. I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
Jack Whitehall
#49. I've never laughed a woman into bed, but I've laughed one out of bed many times.
Jack Whitehall
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