83 Quotes by Simon Hoggart

In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their star sign. In Houston you’re told how rich they are. And in New York they tell you what their rent is.

They’re called Virgin Trains because they don’t go all the way.

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn’t do her much good.

Watching the Commons tribute to Margaret Thatcher was like being suffocated inside a gigantic sticky toffee pudding, but one with nasty bogeys planted inside. There was much of the ‘Margaret Thatcher who was lucky enough to know me,’ especially from her own side of the House.

If you read the ‘Daily Mail,’ you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

I’ve served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.

The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn’t want to drink it yourself.

I’m often amazed at the way politicians, who spend hours poring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks, are certain they know precisely what God’s views are on everything.

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.