Top 90 Jeremy Clarkson Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that’s what gets you.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

2. “Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.”

— Jeremy Clarkson

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3. “Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.”

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4. “You’re a car, but most of all, what you are, what you’ve become, is a mate. And that’s what makes a car special. That’s what makes a car great. You start to think of it as a person. You start to love it.”

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5. “Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.”

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6. “Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.”

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7. “A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.”

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8. “I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.”

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9. “The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler.”

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10. “I don’t understand bus lanes. Why do poor people have to get to places quicker than I do?”

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11. “This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.”

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12. “Looking good in Italy is even more important than looking where you’re going.”

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13. “The “public” seems to have bought into this belief that life can, and should, be run without risk, that all accidents are avoidable, and that death is something that only happens to people who eat meat and smoke.”

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14. “Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don’t, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.”

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15. “I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!”

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16. “I’d like to consider Ferrari as a scaled down version of God.”

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17. “Do not cruise through red lights. Because if I’m coming the other way, I will run you down, for fun.”

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18. “I’m sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.”

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19. “This is a hard job. Change gear, change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That’s a lot of effort in a day.”

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20. “If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that’s a cool way to die!”

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21. “All this health and safety talk is just killing me.”

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22. “In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.”

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23. “There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.”

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24. “The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blonde-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.”

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25. “There are shantytowns in South Africa that are built better than Renaults!”

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26. “Cows eat grass and silage. This is melting the ice caps and killing us all. So they need a new foodstuff: something that is rich in iron, calcium and natural goodness. Plainly they cannot eat meat so here is an idea to chew on. Why not feed them vegetarians?”

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27. “The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!”

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28. “I’m not only in touch with my feminine side, I’m in touch with my gay side as well.”

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29. “Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.”

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30. “The air conditioning in Lamborghinis used to be an asthmatic sitting in the dashboard blowing at you through a straw.”

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31. “Column writing is like gas – it fills the available space.”

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32. “We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.”

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33. “Italy’s youngsters complain, apparently, about having to live at home until they are 72 but that’s because they spend all their money on suits and coffee and Alfa Romeos rather than mortgages.”

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34. “Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you’ve got the Ebola virus and you’re about to sneeze.”

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35. “I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn’t work very well. I don’t understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight...”

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36. “Some say he never blinks, and that he roams around the woods at night foraging for wolves. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”

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37. “Some say his droppings have been found as far north as York, and that he has a full size tattoo of his face, on his face. All we know is he’s called the Stig.”

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38. “I’m a horse of a man!”

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39. “Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.”

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40. “Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.”

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41. “You have city centre pubs where men go to meet girls, not realising that all girls in city centre pubs have thighs like tug boats and morals that would surprise a zoo animal.”

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42. “We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.”

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43. “Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.”

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44. “God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.”

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45. “Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.”

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46. “Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It’s like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You’d just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke’s sweaty face.”

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47. “I don’t think I am particularly funny. In fact, I know I’m not.”

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48. “This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying “Ooh good I’ve got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases.””

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49. “Owning a TVR in the past was like owning a bear. I mean it was great, until it pulled your head off, which it would.”

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50. “I rang up Jay Kay, who’s got one, and said: ‘Can we borrow yours?’ and he said, ‘Yeah, if I can borrow your daughter, because it amounts to the same thing.’”

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