“Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it'...” — David Starkey Quote

“Human life isn't about ideals. It's a compromise, and occasionally it's boring.”

“We have a lot to learn from the Tudor education system. It had diversity, placed rigorous demands on its students, and encouraged high achievement.”

“I remain a very reluctant member of the Conservative Party. On the principle that one sort of ought to. Unfortunately, in 21st-century Britain I have no political home whatever. I get very sickened at the conventional right-wing label.”

“The notion of public service has effectively been abandoned. Every political party now buys into business values, and into the notion that by definition business must run things more efficiently.”

“I am passionately committed to state education.”

“My mother scrubbed other people's floors for a living, and I remember vividly her worrying about being down to the last half crown for the week. And I was aware of it, and absolutely determined that under no circumstances would that ever happen to me.”

“I'm Mr Boring, not a party-goer at all.”

“In real life I am a very boring person.”

“If your career is too stable, and you don't have anything suspenseful happening in your life, it's boring.”

“The future is going to be boring. The suburbanisation of the planet will continue, and the suburbanisation of the soul will follow soon after.”

“I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.”

“If Adele's seen as boring, then I'm happy to be boring as well.”