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Machiavelli observed that 'wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please'.
— Max Hastings
A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.
— Max Hastings
All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.
— Max Hastings
A Russian, the poet David Samoilov, said later, We were all expecting war. But we were not expecting that war.
— Max Hastings
I would have been a disastrous soldier.
— Max Hastings
It's always times like these when I think of you and I wonder if you ever think of me.
— Vanessa Carlton
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.
— Max Hastings
When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.
— Max Hastings
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
— Peter De Vries
It is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.
— Max Hastings
People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.
— Max Hastings
Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.
— Heinz Fischer
We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)
— Max Hastings
The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.
— William Wordsworth
The best stories are the ones with the unexpected plot twists that no one would have guessed, even the writer.
— Shannon L. Alder
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.
— Max Hastings
Which transcended anything they had ever known.
— Max Hastings
It's hard to get rid of vampires. You have to drag them into the light.-Cynthia D. Grant, Uncle Vampire — Cynthia D. Grant
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal.
— Max Hastings
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
— Max Hastings
well-worn Victorian settee covered in burgundy sateen,
— Susan Kandel
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something.
— Max Hastings
I'm a passionate monarchist.
— Max Hastings