38 Quotes by Ian Hislop

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.