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Max Hastings Quotes

Max Hastings quotes

British Journalist December 28, 1945

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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. Max Hastings
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
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be. Max Hastings
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
Amoz Oz, who said something of the same kind, but from a different perspective: ‘People like you’, he said to me, ‘are going to become very disappointed in Israel in the years ahead. You want it to behave like a European society. Instead, it is becoming a Middle Eastern society. I hope that it will not behave worse than other Middle Eastern societies. But you should not delude yourself that it is likely to behave much better. Max Hastings
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
Max Hastings quote: "When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I..."
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. Max Hastings
In Soviet thinking the concept of economy of force has little place. Whereas to an Englishman the taking of a sledgehammer to crack a nut is a wrong decision and a sign of mental immaturity...in Russian eyes the cracking of nuts is clearly what sledgehammers are for. Max Hastings
Max Hastings quote: "A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of..."
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. Max Hastings
Max Hastings quote: "It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort..."
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. Max Hastings
Max Hastings quote: "I'm a passionate monarchist."
I'm a passionate monarchist. Max Hastings
Max Hastings quote: "I would have been a disastrous soldier."
I would have been a disastrous soldier. Max Hastings
Max Hastings quote: "I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written..."
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. Max Hastings
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
Max Hastings quote: "I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort..."
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. Max Hastings

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