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

- 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

Lots of us when we're children believe 'oh well, if the world knew us as we really are, they'd know what wonderful, clever, brilliant, charming peopl…

- Max Hastings

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

- Max Hastings

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

- 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

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

- Max Hastings

I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I…

- Max Hastings