I know I'm hated. Or rather, that people struggle with dislike for me. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
As a politician, you only meet two types of people. People with problems, and people who are right. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
I regularly dream about the Queen. Apparently, millions of people do. I wonder who she dreams about? — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Several people have told me that Queen Elizabeth made slighting comments about Philip within their hearing, and referred to him - not… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
When I was an MP, I worked at the department where we gave honors to people from the arts world, I was… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
What's interesting is I don't think you will find anyone to say anything against Des O'Connor, he was the nicest of people… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
People are always asking me on to quizzes - they think I know all the answers because I burble on so, but… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I began writing a biography of Shakespeare, and since then I've written a number of biographies of… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share Image
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
Princess Anne is like her father. From her, you'll never hear a complaint of any kind about her upbringing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
If you're the Queen you don't need to say anything and you don't get into trouble. If you're the Duke of Edinburgh you say… — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
When it comes to personal communication, words are all we've got. It is the simple use of language that makes us human beings. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles? — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
“One should always be suspicious of a woman who tells you that her past was burnt in the flames of a schoolhouse in Peshawar.” — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
Among the upper classes, especially three or four generations ago, men and women had separate bedrooms. That's just the way it was. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
We did marry in secret and it was several years before we even told our parents that we were married. — Gyles Brandreth Copy Share
