Dinner Quote by 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 the great…

— 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 the public…

— Simon Hoggart

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

— Simon Hoggart

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

— 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 least it…

— 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 peashooter, will…

— Simon Hoggart

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

— 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 of retirement.

— 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 possible attack…

— Simon Hoggart