Top 9 Quotes by Gyles Brandreth

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Gyles Brandreth

Crazy, Being Crazy, Countdown

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.