Max Hastings Quotes
- You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
- As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
- If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter.
- The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.
- I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
- 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…
- I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
- A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
- I would have been a disastrous soldier.