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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

If you can't get a job as a pianist in a brothel you become a royal reporter. — Max Hastings

There are some wounds unreachable by words, some sins immune to apology. — Amy Hatvany

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

It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. — 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

Dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness, gentlemen. — Max Hastings

You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings

Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change. — Liz Wiseman

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing. — Max Hastings

My relationship with my mother trapped me in the identity of a child. — Aspen Matis

Nothing satisfies greed, but even a little satisfies nature. — Seneca.

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

Never in history have lies been such vital instruments of diplomacy and policy. — Max Hastings

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914) — Max Hastings

He who thinks always of the Lord, which way can evil come to him? — Sarada Devi

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

Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza. — Frank Iero

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

The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges. — Max Hastings

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. — Max Hastings

'Women's fashion' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women. — Andrea Dworkin

I'm a passionate monarchist. — Max Hastings