Max Hastings Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

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

“I would have been a disastrous soldier.”

“I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.”

“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.”

“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 passionate monarchist.”

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

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

“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.”