Quentin Letts Quotes

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Hugging has become the routine, daily greeting mechanism. Odd to think that in previous decades we blokes managed with a simple 'wotcha' and raised paw of acknowledgement before pottering on our humdrum way.

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Now hugging is everywhere. We British might once have kept our distance, but that national tendency to show restraint has gone. Hugging has taken over. It has become an epidemic. A plague.

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At party conferences a nervous activist makes her debut speech. It is not particularly good but she completes it, just. Down the stage gallops the party leader, clapping like a sea lion, arms held wide like a giant crab. Whoompf. The activist is engulfed whole, like a cocktail sausage canape.

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Ancient Greek tragedy, when done right, wrings your withers and leaves you purged.

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Like Mr. Cameron, Harold had devilishly good legs — those thighs were almost edible! — and showed them off in a pair of shorts, in his case worn high on the girth. But sandals are plainly not an option for our current PM: he is in Coalition and has no wish to be mistaken for a Liberal Democrat.
Of David Cameron

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The Archbishop of Canterbury, whose crisp sign of the Cross has something of a window cleaner reaching into every last crevice, gave his blessing. 'The fever of life is over.'
On his article about Margaret Thatcher funeral

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