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Jeremy Hardy
18 quotes
“It seems a shallow observation, but… the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 30 May 2006)
“It is a stupid observation, but the Labour Party are not an smart lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same town, you would blame bad parenting, wouldn't you all?”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, July 1997 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 23 July 1999)
“… really very critical of hereditary peers, but they — I mean — they've got their faults, but some of those faults have been in the family for generations.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 6 June 2006)
“You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 6 June 2006)
“I don't get this fashion for happy funerals. He said he wanted all his mates to be in a good mood and smile, and this is a very fashionable idea, that when you die, it's supposed to be a celebration and joyous and everyone laughing, but I want people's lives torn apart when I go. I want to be embalmed and brought out when we have guests.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 13 June 2006)
“My daughter wanted a new pair of trainers. I told her "You're eleven, make your own!”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, July 2002
“Have you ever looked at Kylie's teeth? Those teeth are proportional to the teeth of a camel in the mouth of a toddler.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: QI, BBC Two, 6 November 2003
“If you just took everyone in the BNP and everyone who votes for them and shot them in the back of the head, there would be a brighter future for us all.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, BBC Radio 4, 13 September 2004
“The need to compile lists is a personality disorder, as is the need to assert the superiority of some things over other things.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio Times, 5-11 August 2006, referring to Film4's Fifty Greatest Films
“All socialists have bad backs because we slouch — except when we’re watching the news when we sit on the edge of our seats, shout, and wave our arms. Generally we sit hunched, arms crossed in a judgemental way, the whole of our bodies pulled into a frown.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation, BBC Radio 4, 2007
“Most harm is done by people who are awake.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, May 16, 2008
“Why don't they just accept that life is sad and cheer up it's not forever.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, June 2008
“The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, November 2008
“Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, November 2008
“The Afghan War has clearly reached a stage similar to that moment at your child's party where you realise you've forgotten to give the other parents a pick up time.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, 23 January 2009
“People say I'm self-deprecating, but I don't think I'm very good at that.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC News tribute, Rory Bremner, 1 February 2019
“On Vince Cable: But he's charming and northern; he's the man tasked with crushing the poor in their own accent, isn't he really?”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz series 72 episode 1, BBC Radio 4, 24 September 2010
“It was developing countries where people are more cheery, wasn't it? ... Well, because when people are materially disadvantaged, maybe they're more optimistic, because they know that their destiny's not entirely in their own hands. And so they just have to hope for the best. Whereas in the developed world, where materially we've got plenty of stuff, and lots of opportunities, we know that the only thing stopping us from being happy is ourselves, which of course is a kind of downward spiral into disillusionment and hopelessness, isn't it, really? Because you can't -- you're never gonna get rid of yourself, so if you're basically unhappy, you're always gonna be unhappy, and in the remaining time that you've got left, you're either gonna be in despair about the fact that you've wasted your life, or maybe a bit cheerful about the fact that it's nearly over.”
Jeremy Hardy (1961–2019) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, 8 January 2011