Julie Burchill Quotes
- All sensible people will readily admit that to be an American is an essentially hellish and moronic state to which no one in their right mind would aspire. To be born British, especially, and aspire to this low condition would seem rather like throwing a platinum bracelet back in the face of an admirer and demanding a Perspex bangle instead. - View Quote Details on All sensible people will readily admit that to be an…
- Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. - View Quote Details on Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively…
- We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you’ve got Prince Charles (a big friend of the Islamic world, probably because of its large number of feudal kingdoms and hardline attitude to uppity women), the Catholic church (taking a brief break from buggering babies to condemn any western attack as “morally unacceptable”) and posturing pansies such as Sean Penn, Sheryl Crow and Damon Albarn. - View Quote Details on We may be saddled with Bush and Blair, but you’ve…
- “We can quantify the deaths caused by both communism and fascism, but we will never know how many deaths have been the result of capitalism; of nothing more noble than a rich man wanting to be even richer, and sacrificing the health and lives of millions of workers to achieve this. Don’t even try to count how many people capitalism has killed, because not only will you not know where to begin, but also it will never end. - View Quote Details on “We can quantify the deaths caused by both communism and…
- Details of Sugar Rush on Channel Four - View Quote Details on Details of Sugar Rush on Channel Four
- The vast majority of paid labour, especially since the destruction of the trades unions, is a massively unfair exploitation of the people who actually keep the country going - and who could bring it to a standstill if they weren’t so bloody patient - by the people who get million-pound bonuses for doing sod-all, and who no one would miss if they all dropped dead tomorrow of expense-account heart attacks. - View Quote Details on The vast majority of paid labour, especially since the destruction…
- It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. - View Quote Details on It has been said that a pretty face is a…
- A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men. - View Quote Details on A good part - and definitely the most fun part…
- You can never be too anti-American, or too thin. - View Quote Details on You can never be too anti-American, or too thin.
- Guardian columns by Julie Burchill - View Quote Details on Guardian columns by Julie Burchill
- Of course, I don’t go along with mad old Mugabe in believing that this Government is made up exclusively of effeminate homosexuals, but you must admit that it has a higher proportion of Softies than any in recent memory - even our rampantly heterosexual leader always took the female parts in school plays, and was known by jealous classmates at various points in his education as both “Emily” and “Miranda”. And as we know from the work of artists as varied as Genet, Pasolini and Isherwood, there’s nothing like being a Softie oneself to make one admire the thug, the brute and the bully. This sad syndrome is currently a great force in popular culture, as well as in politics. The sorry spectacle of public schoolboys making films about how well-dressed, witty and cool working-class sociopaths are continues with the forthcoming Snatch, the latest film by Guy Ritchie, whose mother is a Lady, whose sister is a Tabitha, and who obviously got that impressive-looking scar by falling off his pony and landing on his silver spoon. - View Quote Details on Of course, I don’t go along with mad old Mugabe…
- Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground. - View Quote Details on Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex…
- A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold. - View Quote Details on A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like…
- I don’t have to respect anyone’s religion on principle any more than I have to respect people’s politics if I find them bigoted. I will decide what I respect or not on the basis of whether that philosophy respects other people’s rights, regardless of their colour or sex. In return, I don’t want or need anyone to be bullied into respecting what I believe in. So long as they don’t interfere with my right to believe in Him, they can call my God all the names under the sun. My faith is sufficiently strong that I won’t run off to Headmaster Blair to tell the nasty mockers to stop it. - View Quote Details on I don’t have to respect anyone’s religion on principle any…
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- I didn’t want to get bitter about thin girls, as the saddest sort of fat woman does - when being irrevocably overweight becomes a selfless (hah!), spread-the-gospel crusade, rather than a result of giving in to one’s adorably animal appetites. - View Quote Details on I didn’t want to get bitter about thin girls, as…
- A sensible socialist should have no more scruples about watching the execution of a child murderer than she should have about watching the execution of the heads of the world banks. - View Quote Details on A sensible socialist should have no more scruples about watching…
- In thirty years time, will you have drag queens dressing up as Sandra Bullock? Don’t think so! - View Quote Details on In thirty years time, will you have drag queens dressing…
- Hurricane Julie 2005 Spike Magazine extensive interview with Julie Burchill - View Quote Details on Hurricane Julie 2005 Spike Magazine extensive interview with Julie Burchill
- Let’s get this straight: all entertainment is manufactured. There is no authenticity in any of it. - View Quote Details on Let’s get this straight: all entertainment is manufactured. There is…
- Of course, chicken tikka masala isn’t even Indian: just a brightly-coloured, kitsch creation designed to appeal to the sweet tooths of the Brits, the sauce produced in huge vats by a thriving corporation. Deracinated, ersatz, malleable, blanded-out in the all-important pursuit of profit - no wonder New Labour approves. After all, you are what you eat. - View Quote Details on Of course, chicken tikka masala isn’t even Indian: just a…
- Scratch a Croat, find a Kraut. - View Quote Details on Scratch a Croat, find a Kraut.
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About Julie Burchill
Julie Burchill(born July 3, 1959 in Frenchay, Bristol ) is a British writer, renowned for her invective and often contentious prose. She is best known as a newspaper columnist, but in June 2007 announced the end of her journalistic career.
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