People Quote by Jonathan Meades

If you have slightly pathological interest in all the components of places, it forces you to engage with them in a way that perhaps…

— Jonathan Meades

If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe…

— Jonathan Meades

Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

— Jonathan Meades

At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality since the…

— Jonathan Meades

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed…

— Jonathan Meades

I genuinely find it difficult to think of places that I'd never want to see again. It might be because part of my career…

— Jonathan Meades

I like extremely effeminate dogs like terriers or schnauzers. I make an exception for giant schnauzers and big poodles. Basically, I like dogs which…

— Jonathan Meades

While I'm sure people in Britain have money worries, they don't have them like the French do. The French, however much money they have,…

— Jonathan Meades

I don't think things necessarily should have a meaning. If stuff has a meaning then why do [writing] about it? If you're trying to…

— Jonathan Meades

Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence…

— Jonathan Meades

You always have to find something to say about the subject and in seven cases out of ten there is nothing to say.

— Jonathan Meades

As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me are always…

— Jonathan Meades