Dinner Quote by Toby Young

Teachers complain a lot about how tough their job is. But, you know, the day begins in most schools at nine o'clock, ends at…

— Toby Young

I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.

— Toby Young

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms…

— Toby Young

I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some…

— Toby Young

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often…

— Toby Young

The fact that I'm a Tory who hasn't worked at a university - at least, not since I taught at Cambridge in 1990 -…

— Toby Young

If anything bad happens, the media will leap on it. We're under a huge obligation to be successful.

— Toby Young

“It was journalism at its best: irreverent, mischievous and beholden to no one.”

— Toby Young

In my capacity as a board member of the OfS, I hope to be impartial, objective, and fair.

— Toby Young

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

— Toby Young

I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.

— Toby Young

My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call.…

— Toby Young