Lots of us when we’re children believe ‘oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they’d know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming people we really are.’ Max Hastings Read Quote
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I’m writing. Max Hastings Read Quote
We’re taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we’re all ultimately ridiculous. Max Hastings Read Quote
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 try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media. Max Hastings Read Quote
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. Max Hastings Read Quote
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. Max Hastings Read Quote
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one’s going to get far in later life playing by the system. Max Hastings Read Quote
I’ve always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they’re perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I’ve dealt with plenty of neurotic men. Max Hastings Read Quote
