List of Jeremy Paxman Quotes

I've Always Felt Myself To Be An Outsider. I've Always Felt Awkward.

I'm Afraid I Tend To Be Thinking About Things And Not Paying Sufficient Attention To One's Posture, Deportment And General Cast Of Face.

I Have Neither The Learning Nor The Experience To Know Whether The Doomsayers Are Right About The Human Causes Of Climate Change. But I Am Willing To Acknowledge That People Who Know A Lot More Than I Do May Be Right When They Claim That It Is The Consequence Of Our Own Behaviour. I Assume That This Is Why The Bbc's Coverage Of The Issue Abandoned The Pretence Of Impartiality Long Ago.

The Promise Of Western Capitalism Of Ever Rising Rates Of Pay Has Turned Out To Be The Cheque That Bounced

At Last Someone Takes Me Seriously.

I Find It Odd That People Take Me Seriously.

At Work People Are Expected To Be At The Beck And Call Of Employers All The Time. You Have Blackberries And Other Things, And They Just Don't Leave You Alone. People Have Less Time Just To Drop Into An Art Gallery.

The Idea Of A Tax On The Ownership Of A Television Belongs In The 1950s. Why Not Tax People For Owning A Washing Machine To Fund The Manufacture Of Persil?

Ones Teachers All Belonged To That Generation Who Were Imperialists, And The Whole Narrative Throughout My Adolescence Was Of Countries Leaving The Empire. I Find It Extraordinary That This Purpose Which Drove How We Viewed The World Is Now Considered To Be Something That Has No Effect Upon Us.

Has There Ever Been A Visitor To Ludlow Who Hasn't Wished They Lived There?

It's Stupid To Have A Simple-minded View.

It Would Be Unforgivable To Use The Role I Have, Such As It Is, To Inflict My Incoherent, Half-baked View Of The World On People. That Would Be Illegitimate And Unacceptable And I Should Be Fired.