Simon Hoggart

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

— Simon Hoggart

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for…

— Simon Hoggart

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

— Simon Hoggart

I'm often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what…

— Simon Hoggart

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If…

— Simon Hoggart

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia,…

— Simon Hoggart

Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It's the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very…

— Simon Hoggart

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.

— Simon Hoggart

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and…

— Simon Hoggart

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim…

— Simon Hoggart

Reagan is the only man to take the presidency as a part-time job, a means of filling up the otherwise empty hours…

— Simon Hoggart

I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the…

— Simon Hoggart

Reagan was a flesh and blood version of any other mute national emblem, say the Statue of Liberty. Everyone knows what she…

— Simon Hoggart

Every time humanists try to get a slot on 'Thought For the Day' on Radio 4, they are told it's reserved for…

— Simon Hoggart

Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It's just that they have more to…

— Simon Hoggart

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure…

— Simon Hoggart

One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book,…

— Simon Hoggart

Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest -…

— Simon Hoggart

Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet,…

— Simon Hoggart

When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to…

— Simon Hoggart

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan,…

— Simon Hoggart

They're called Virgin Trains because they don't go all the way.

— Simon Hoggart

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

— Simon Hoggart

A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would…

— Simon Hoggart

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a…

— Simon Hoggart