Simon Hoggart Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.”

“I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.”

“If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.”

“When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.”

“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.”

“She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.”

“I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the paper led its front page on some cabinet changes in Turkey. It implied a magnificent disdain for the quotidian folderol of mere news.”

“There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.”

“Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most expensive - wines from around the world. I am pleased to say that they also hold my own warrant, for providing exceptional wines at - surprisingly - modest prices.”

“All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way.”