English Broadcaster Quotes

Bruce Dickinson

Patrick Moore

John Betjeman

Jeremy Clarkson

Richard Hammond

Clement Freud

Louis Theroux

We tread a fine line between taking ourselves seriously and being Spinal Tap.

Bruce Dickinson

Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong. Even with the things that are wrong already.

The earth has a mass of 5.97 x 1024 kilograms... a big number and one that really matters because that is all the matter we have got.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

If, sir, I possessed... the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

Gilbert Harding

Ask any Ferrari, Porsche or Ray-Ban salesperson about their average customer and you will very likely hear that he is not, as the adverts would have us believe, a virile young footballer with shiny hair, a rippling six pack and a trouser pouch like a new punch bag. He is, in fact, a middle-aged bloke wearing more chins than he started life with and carrying the clear evidence of forty years of beer and pies slung across his midriff.

Richard Hammond

What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

The BBC is rather like a cross between the Church of England and the Post Office.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Does anyone really imagine for a moment that my wife gives two stuffs about global warming? She certainly did not appear to be all that bothered on Thursday evening when, during the great carbon-saving switch-off, I ran round the house furiously turning on every light, hair dryer, dishwasher and toaster.

Jeremy Clarkson

I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have to keep denying family connection.

Oh, Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side,
The summer's gone, and all the roses falling,
It's you, it's you must go, and I must bide.

I cannot believe that it will ever be feasible to send a manned space-ship out beyond the Solar System; my lack of faith in space-warps, time-warps, freezing techniques, and cosmical Noah's Arks is profound, though I am well aware that others do not agree.

Free speech – proper, full-blooded free speech – is the lifeblood of any progressive politics and of any progressive transformation of society. If we treasure the one, we must treasure the other.

Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.

The Devil may take the reckless, but the good will surely die of boredom. Boredom and frustration.

And now, dear Lord, I cannot wait Because I have a luncheon date.

Fish have water, the bushmen of the Kalahari have sand, and Houstonians have interior décor.