Simon Hoggart Quotes

• The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you’ll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest – and possibly the richest – ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violent, Insulted

• While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Canadians, Dan

• I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Agnostic, Lack

• Peter Mandelson is someone who can skulk in broad daylight.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Everything we hear from Buckingham Palace suggests that [the Queen] is surrounded by stupid, blind, stuffy, self-promoting, rivalrous, gin-drinking courtiers, who haven’t realised that a modern constitutional Monarch exists no longer by right but by consent and free will.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

• The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Simon Hoggart

  Tags in New York, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington

• Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You’re tired, you’ve had a headache since you arrived, but you can’t leave because then you’d miss the party.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living, New York

• The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spontaneity, Party

• In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Failure, Success

• Americans are fascinated by their own love of shopping. This does not make them unique. It’s just that they have more to buy than most other people on the planet. And it’s also an affirmation of faith in their country.

  Simon Hoggart

  Topics in Love

  Tags in American

• She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

  Simon Hoggart

  Tags in Government

Simon Hoggart (52)

Birth:	26th May, 1946
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

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