Max Hastings Quotes

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.

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.

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.'

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.

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.

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.

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.

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

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.