1,197 Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

Internationalism is the highest form of patriotism.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.

The reading public isn’t born that doesn’t think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.

When Dr. Samuel Johnson had completed the first real dictionary of the English language, he was visited by a delegation of respectable old ladies who wished to congratulate him for not including any indecent words. His response – which was that he was interested to see that the ladies had been looking them up – contains almost all that needs to be said on this point.

By the way, if you knew how you sounded when you hissed, you wouldn’t do it: you sound like such berks when you do that.

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

We shall have no more prophets or sages from the ancient quarter, which is why the devotions of today are only the echoing repetitions of yesterday, sometimes ratcheted up to screaming point so as to ward off the terrible emptiness.

All of life is a wager.