Father Quote by Gyles Brandreth

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

— Gyles Brandreth

I don't poo-pooh anyone's knighthood or other honors.

— Gyles Brandreth

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

Life has not turned out as I hoped it would.

— Gyles Brandreth

“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

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

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

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

— Gyles Brandreth

First and foremost, I am a writer. That's what I have spent my life doing.

— Gyles Brandreth

“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

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

We did marry in secret and it was several years before we even told our parents that we were married.

— Gyles Brandreth