Gyles Brandreth

There's nothing so unemployable as a man in his 50s who's no longer on the winning side.

— Gyles Brandreth

Prince Philip was a funny man who liked to laugh and make others laugh.

— Gyles Brandreth

Private weddings are becoming something of a family tradition. My daughter Saethryd married her husband Jason at Marylebone Register Office in 2005…

— Gyles Brandreth

I told Prince Philip that, having met them both, I was struck, not by the differences between him and Charles, but by…

— Gyles Brandreth

Once, during one of the jubilee tours, I was in the car immediately behind theirs and I watched Prince Philip telling the…

— Gyles Brandreth

I have been a print journalist.

— Gyles Brandreth

Indeed, the Duke of Edinburgh's disdain for his eldest son was all the more shocking because he made little or no attempt…

— Gyles Brandreth

In fact, when I shake hands with all those wonderful people at the Stratford Literary Festival, they will be shaking hands with…

— Gyles Brandreth

For centuries in Britain, the small-talk standby has been the weather.

— Gyles Brandreth

The essence of democracy is that you can kick people out.

— Gyles Brandreth

For more than 40 years now, relentlessly, I have been pursuing brief encounters with the great and the good.

— Gyles Brandreth

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should…

— Gyles Brandreth

To me Prince Philip was a hero and a role model - and a friend.

— Gyles Brandreth

I'm a friend of Walter Cronkite.

— Gyles Brandreth

I said to my wife, Michele, 'What would you like for Christmas? Anything you want, darling, anything in our means.' She said…

— Gyles Brandreth

Gazing at the typewriter in moments of desperation I console myself with three thoughts. Alcohol at six, dinner at eight, and to…

— Gyles Brandreth

A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.

— Gyles Brandreth

It was Napoleon who said if you want to understand a man, look at the world as it was when he was…

— Gyles Brandreth

In many ways, Prince Philip was remarkably good-humored and long-suffering.

— Gyles Brandreth

'An Audience With Kenneth Williams.' My wife and I went with him to the recording. He was paid £10,000, the largest fee…

— Gyles Brandreth

When I was an MP, I worked at the department where we gave honors to people from the arts world, I was…

— Gyles Brandreth

The biggest and loudest weddings don't always produce the happiest marriages.

— Gyles Brandreth

People confuse being full of words with being terribly intelligent and informed.

— Gyles Brandreth

I was in the debating society at school, I was the president of the Oxford Union, and then I became an MP…

— Gyles Brandreth

If you are getting married it's about the person you are marrying, it's about the relationship. For me it's not about the…

— Gyles Brandreth