Top 17 Quotes & Sayings by Max Hastings

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British journalist Max Hastings.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
Max Hastings

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of numerous books, chiefly on defence matters, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion.

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.'
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.
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.
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.
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work.
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 would have been a disastrous soldier.
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. — © Max Hastings
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
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.
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly. — © Max Hastings
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel, you become a royal reporter.
The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.
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