British Journalist Quotes

In response as to why he avoided getting to know Members of Parliament:
If I knew them, it might spoil the purity of my hatred.

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

A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

Cats do not keep the mice away; it is my belief that they preserve them for the chase.

We simultaneously disdain and covet American culture, condemning it as junk food, even as we reach for another helping – a kind of binge-and-puke social bulimia.

Jonathan Freedland
Jonathan Freedland
Look in my face. My name is Used-to-was;
I am also called Played-out and Done-to-death,
And It-will-wash-no-more.

The idea that some day another wife would be added to our household was ever present in my mind, but, somehow, when the fact was placed before me in so many unmistakable words, my heart sank within me, and I shrank from the realization that our home was at last to be desecrated by the foul presence of Polygamy.

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

Her uncle drove a taxi which he had purchased on the 'never never' system. You pay $80 down and more than you can afford for the rest of your life.

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

He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

Trotsky's writings and those of his followers were freely published in the middle and late thirties by the Hearst Press in America. His works on his "new kind of Communism" were published by the Franco Press at Salamanca and Burgos. The secret police of the Polish dictatorship were specially educated in Trotskyism in order to facilitate their work of espionage and disruption inside the Polish working-class movement.

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges.

Max Hastings
Max Hastings
Finding common ground between science and magic depends, of course, on how we define magic.

Roger Highfield
Roger Highfield
The night is your friend. The V is your sign.

Love is not an option. It's the choice of an idiot who wants to end with nothing, robbed and abused and humiliated.

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.

The winner is not the player who wins the most pots. The winner is the player who wins the most money.

Even if I do not see the fruits, the struggle has been worthwhile. If my life has taught me anything, it is that one must fight.

According to legend, Telford is so dull that the bypass was built before the town.
On the Midlands new-town

Most people think I have a lot of fun and that I'm a pretty good driver but they don't take my driving all that seriously.

James Hunt
James Hunt
The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.

Why should people be expected to think about the meaning of life merely because they happen to be ill? That is just the time when there is no time to think about such things, because the body is so greedy for attention.