Max Hastings famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
-- Max Hastings

#War #Way #Generations
I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.
-- Max Hastings

#Men #Thinking #Perfect
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
-- Max Hastings

#Book #Writing #Thinking
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
-- Max Hastings

#Play #Ridiculous #Comedy
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
-- Max Hastings

#School #Play #People
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
-- Max Hastings

#Soldier
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
-- Max Hastings

#Computer #Easier #Made
There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.
-- Max Hastings

#Responsibility #Media #Doubt
Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.'
-- Max Hastings

#Children #Clever #Believe
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
-- Max Hastings

#Government #Decent #Catastrophe
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
-- Max Hastings

#Aggressive
The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.
-- Max Hastings

#War #Brotherhood
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
-- Max Hastings

#Jobs #Royal #Pianist
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
-- Max Hastings

#Character #Writing #People

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