British Journalist Quotes

Wilkie Collins

Edgar Wallace

Kim Philby

Edwin Arnold

Amelia Edwards

James Hunt

Malcolm Gladwell

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Gerald Priestland

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

There is no state more abject than the man broken on the waterboarding rack, or frozen to near death, or forced to stand for days on end, or hooded and strapped to shackles in a ceiling, or having his legs pulpified by repeated beating, or forced to eat pork and drink alcohol against religious strictures. Everything I have just described has been done by US forces under the command and direction of George W. Bush. They are all acts of absolute tyranny, conducted by people who at that moment are absolute tyrants.

Andrew Sullivan

It is, I reckon, difficult to conceive of a single area of government policy that is at once so important for each of us, so catastrophically complicated, so insanely unjust, so obscenely ineffective, and has been quite so comprehensively cocked up by successive administratations as the British pension system.

Since science is essentially objective, involving the study of how things actually are, "materialism" would therefore seem to be its antithesis, since its starting point is the desire to impose upon the natural world a particular and limited way of looking at it.

Melanie Phillips

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

I had never 'taken a cutting' before... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to cut off your wife's leg, stick it in the lawn, and be greeted on the following day by an entirely new woman, sprung from the leg, advancing across the lawn to meet you.

Beverley Nichols

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

Christiane Amanpour

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth.

Hard news really is hard. It sticks not in the craw but in the mind. It has an almost physical effect, causing fear, interest, laughter or shock.

Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster.

The genealogy of scientific discovery is important because every scientist inherits so much from his predecessors. Science is evolutionary, depending upon the intermarriage of ideas. The family tree of a major scientific discovery is usually more impressively international than that of the most august royal house.

Peter Ritchie Calder

O tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like you?

He was exceptionally aggressive. He said I would do anything to get on television. That's rubbish. The fact is that out of the 10 tasks we were given to do in the series I was on the winning side eight times.

But that perhaps is the point of any memoir—to walk with the dead and yet see them with our eyes, from our vantage point.

Margaret Forster

Beyond are greens where pink chestnuts, may trees and copper beeches flaunt themselves gaily.

It 's no matter what you do
If your heart be only true,
And his heart was true to Poll.

Francis Burnand

Why did the Apostrophe Protection Society not have a militant wing? Could I start one? Where do you get balaclavas?

The girls pick snouts from the pack as though they're chocolates and it matters which they select.

Howard Jacobson

XR, as Extinction Rebellion's members call it, uses nonviolent mass disruption to increase awareness of climate change and force action on the issue, such as persuading governments to declare a climate emergency and to set targets for net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.

It will all go on as long as women are stupid enough to go on bringing men into the world...

Dorothy Richardson

Methods Used
1. Marxist: You decide you're the vanguard of the proletariat and then you can do whatever you want because history will back you up.
2. Stoic: Stay very calm.
3. Positivist: Yes, I'm positive I want to rob this bank.

Freedom of the press in Britain means freedom to print such of the proprietor's prejudices as the advertisers don't object to.