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Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

They may well say not only is this not true, but I will put in an injunction to prevent publication. No, stories don't go in unless I'm convinced by the people who write them that they're true. And if I'm wrong, then so be it. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

I'd always assumed that I would die at about the same age as my dad - he was 45. I am five years in credit now. I can't get my head around the fact that I am older than he was - ever. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

They wound their way through a labyrinth of streets, partly following their noses, partly the orientation of the map. Jardines, Mirasol, Cruz, Puentezuelas, Capuchinas ...
Each word held its magic. They were like brushstrokes painting the landscape of the city, each one helping to build up a picture of the whole. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

The sun rose, the moon saturated the night sky with its silver light and the stars blazed, indifferent to the events happening below them. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Alexander Hislop

A man with a bad character is liable to be blamed for any misdeed which may be done; while a person who is not open to suspicion may commit depredation without challenge. — Alexander Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

The parrot had a range of phrases. His own name ('Niko, Niko'), the name of his original owner and now 'Stavros'. Occasionally he would also say 'Panagia mou', which could be an expression of piety but also a gentle expletive, depending on how it was said. With the parrot it was hard to tell. It did not sound pious. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

Like any collection of family photographs, it was a random selection that told only fragments of a story. The real tale would be revealed by the pictures that were missing or never even taken at all, not the ones that had been so carefully framed or packed away neatly in an envelope. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

Dance halls were where young men and women conducted their courtships, and most had one clear objective: to find a spouse. Mercedes was an exception. The last thing on her mind was to find a soulmate ... When she went out on a Friday and Saturday night she had no desire for anything beyond the life-enhancing thrill of the dance. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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 — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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?' — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. — Ian Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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

Hislop Quotes By Victoria Hislop

Being passive doesn't mean being subservient. Her power lay in how well she chose to respond. There was no subservience involved. — Victoria Hislop

Hislop Quotes By Ian Hislop

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. — Ian Hislop