Home / Authors / Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker Quotes

Broadcaster

Charlie Brooker is a British broadcaster, born on March 3, 1971. Known for his unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on modern society, Brooker has made significant achievements in television, online media, and publishing.

Filter quotes by topic

All People Thinking Black Mirrors Ifs Technology Knows Stories Way Episodes

Famous Charlie Brooker Quotes

“We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.”

Way Kind Made Character Crazy Land Hair Trump Politician Blow London Ridiculous Secretary Johnson Blonde Mayors Blonde Hair

Author:Charlie Brooker

“[Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.”

Knows Reason Know How Worship God

Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“"Proper work" usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you'd gleefully club to death with a bull's knee if only it were legal to do so.”

People Ifs Hate Tasks Clubs Knees Performing Behalf Bulls

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.”

People Firsts Dream Reality Sand Disturbing Rams

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.”

Skins Backbone

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.”

Want Littles States Fun Millions Towns Clubs Convinced Likes Dislike Conspiracy Worthless Pathetic Apocalyptic Muster

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.”

People Feels Long Self Used Walking Anxiety Judgment Slave Appearance Circles Crush Insecurity Trapped Intimidated Beacons Perpetuating Judgment Of Others

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.”

Men World Made Stills Running Names Economy Environment Ears Mess Disappointed Pigs Dominant Testosterone Disappointed In You

Book:The Hell of it All

Source: The Hell of it All

“I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels”

Two Light Social Rooms Rocks Dog Cold Conversation Stones Stranger Killers Heels Elegance Slides Hearted High Heels Light Hearted Stone Cold

Book:Dawn of the Dumb

Source: Dawn of the Dumb

“One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.”

People Feels Enough Pain Benefits Empathy Clusters

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

“Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.”

Way Wish Fronts Boxes Strings Leap Transformed

Author:Charlie Brooker

“At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.”

Men Years Ends Kings Spectrum Novelty Champagne Fourteen Gideon Posh

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

“Society? Can we trust us? Doubt it. We're probably not even real, as was revealed in the popular documentary The Matrix. That bloke next door? Made of pixels. Your co-workers? Pixels. You? One pixel. One measly pixel. You haven't even got shoes, for Christ's sake.”

Made Real Next Christ Doubt Doors Havens Workers Shoes Sake Documentaries Blokes Co Worker Pixels

Author:Charlie Brooker

“In summary, our world is doomed.”

World Our World Doomed Summary

Author:Charlie Brooker

“When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.”

People Thinking Should Courses Moral Communicate Sarcastic Earnest Being Sarcastic

Author:Charlie Brooker

“If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?”

Ifs Feels Doe Sides Technology Effects Drug Side Effects

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.”

Wells Numbers Destiny Letters Rate Grades Artificial Arena Our Destiny Your Destiny

Book:I Can Make You Hate

Source: I Can Make You Hate

About the Author

Born: March 3, 1971
Known for: Broadcaster
Quotes: 117

Books & Sources

I Can Make You HateRelated source material

The Hell of it AllRelated source material

Dawn of the DumbRelated source material

Similar Authors

Judd ApatowBrowse related quotes
Chuck KlostermanBrowse related quotes
George SaundersBrowse related quotes
Louis C. K.Browse related quotes
Zach BraffBrowse related quotes
Madonna CicconeBrowse related quotes
Robert GreeneBrowse related quotes
David LevithanBrowse related quotes
Donald MillerBrowse related quotes
Stephen KingBrowse related quotes