Max Hastings Quotes

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

  Max Hastings

  War, Generations, Way

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• 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.

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  School, Play, People

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• 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.

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  Play, Ridiculous, Comedy

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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

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  Government, Decent, Catastrophe

  "My vote". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Media, Doubt

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

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  Writing, Character, People

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

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  Peace, War, Brotherhood

  Max Hastings (2008). “Retribution”, p.12, Vintage

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

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  Jobs, Royal, Pianist

  "The Princess and the Press". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. November 16, 1997.

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• 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.'

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  Children, Clever, Believe

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

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  Computer, Easier, Made

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• I would have been a disastrous soldier.

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  Soldier, Has Beens

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

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Perfect

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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

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  Aggressive, Has Beens, Wet

  "The view from Hastings". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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