Best Simon Hoggart Quotes
- I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I… Addict
- Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and… Absolute
- Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There… Bogeys
- When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't… Add
- She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood. Childhood
- When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice,… Another Equally
- We all have our opinions. But I suspect that writers are actually less worth heeding, because they regard themselves as so uniquely important, so culturally… Actually Less
- Jim Sheridan, the MP who wants to ban sketchwriters from the Commons for being rude about politicians, is a blithering idiot. Sorry, scrub that -… Ban
- A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest… Answerable
- One of the pleasures of staying with friends is that you get to browse their shelves. I always arrive with a book, but I almost… Almost Never
- What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great names,… Chateaux
- Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull. Book
- Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend… Actually Makes