Simon Hoggart Quotes
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“To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadnt confessed was a minor detail.”
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The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.
— Simon Hoggart
It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.
— Simon Hoggart
Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.
— Simon Hoggart
— Simon Hoggart
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.
— Simon Hoggart
To be fair to the Inquisition, they only used confessions extracted after the torture had ended, which let them claim that admissions had been freely given; the fact that the torture would have started again if they hadn't confessed was a minor detail.
— Simon Hoggart
— Simon Hoggart
I think Tony Blair has to come down on one side or the other. You can't be a half-hearted supporter of the possible attack on Iraq. You're either with George Bush or you're against him.
— Simon Hoggart
What has always puzzled me is the flexibility of God's word. For instance, Catholics can now eat meat on Fridays. And limbo has been abolished. How does this work? Who tells them?
— Simon Hoggart
“In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.”
— Simon Hoggart
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's attempts at health reform are a useful reminder.
— Simon Hoggart
Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.
— Simon Hoggart
— Simon Hoggart
“She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.”
— Simon Hoggart
A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and two houses.
— Simon Hoggart
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
— Simon Hoggart
Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.
— Simon Hoggart
Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight.
— Simon Hoggart
— Simon Hoggart
Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe (as nobody at all calls it yet, except in political speeches). The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed.
— Simon Hoggart
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