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Top 15 Toby Young Quotes (2024 Update)

Toby Young Quote: “I wouldn’t describe myself as a master of anything.”

1. “I wouldn’t describe myself as a master of anything.”

Toby Young Quote: “My life’s ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I’m just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn’t rung.”

2. “My life’s ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I’m just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn’t rung.”

Toby Young Quote: “America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”

3. “America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.”

Toby Young Quote: “People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.”

4. “People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside of Manhattan.”

Toby Young Quote: “I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.”

5. “I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.”

Toby Young Quote: “Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.”

6. “Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.”

Toby Young Quote: “Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.”

7. “Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.”

Toby Young Quote: “I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.”

8. “I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for academic work.”

Toby Young Quote: “I’ve never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate – my father had undergone Freudian analysis – and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.”

9. “I’ve never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate – my father had undergone Freudian analysis – and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.”

Toby Young Quote: “Unbefuckinglievable.”

10. “Unbefuckinglievable.”

Toby Young Quote: “I was once hired to write a column for ‘The Guardian’ and then got fired before I’d submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I’ve written at least one piece for them before firing me.”

11. “I was once hired to write a column for ‘The Guardian’ and then got fired before I’d submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I’ve written at least one piece for them before firing me.”

Toby Young Quote: “You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone’s laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they’re all laughing at you?”

12. “You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone’s laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they’re all laughing at you?”

Toby Young Quote: “The moment I’m perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.”

13. “The moment I’m perceived to be even a tiny bit successful, my career will go down the pan.”

Toby Young Quote: “In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person’s life chances, so we’re less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it’s much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.”

14. “In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person’s life chances, so we’re less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it’s much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.”

Toby Young Quote: “I’ve become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.”

15. “I’ve become a professional failure – in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.”

Toby Young Quote: “I really like the Observer. I think I’d love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I’ve always had a very happy experience writing for them.”

16. “I really like the Observer. I think I’d love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I’ve always had a very happy experience writing for them.”

Toby Young Quote: “There’s no reason why you can’t deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.”

17. “There’s no reason why you can’t deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.”

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