38 Quotes by Ian Hislop

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    You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous – from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry England, the Blitz.

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    Modest about our national pride – and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

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    I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

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    England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who’s got shell shocked during the First World War? I love it.

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    Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It’s conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one’s after.

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

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    You have a huge amount of confidence when you’re younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: ‘No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn’t I do it?’

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

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    There’s an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

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