Max Hastings
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
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.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
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.
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.
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
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.
I'm a passionate monarchist.
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.
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.'
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.Collection: War
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.Collection: Writing
The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.Collection: Peace
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.Collection: Jobs