Ian Hislop Quotes

#1. From Xbox in the previous generation to Xbox One, it's fundamentally transformed.

Satya Nadella

#2. [He] had the soul of a poet, and because of this, he liked very much to consider questions that had no answers.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Ian Hislop

#6. I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

Ian Hislop

#7. I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

Ian Hislop

#8. The next great First Amendment battleground is just six inches high. It is a license plate bearing the Confederate flag.

Anonymous

#9. 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

#10. I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak

Ian Hislop

#11. Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

Ian Hislop

#12. I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master ... The quality that had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying and ecstatic reality in which we all live.

C.S. Lewis

#13. This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind, and pulls up the thorns, and then puts the seed in, and does not answer at once in all cases to the questions put to him.

Saint John Chrysostom

#14. I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.

Ian Hislop

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Ian Hislop

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. No, there are no hard and fast rules about sources, no printed booklet to help journalists through.

Ian Hislop

#22. At this point of time in history, I don't think that women in any work force that's a male-dominated work force have the same rules to play or live by as men do.

Kari Matchett

#23. There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them.

Sundar Pichai

#24. 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

#25. The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

Ian Hislop

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

Ian Hislop

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

Mr. Lee

#31. Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

Napoleon Hill

#32. We were all born with wings. In times of doubt: spread them.

Kevin Myers

#33. Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. Men always fear things which move by themselves.

Frank Herbert

#35. 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

#36. Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.

Lynn Swann

#37. Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

Ralph Barton Perry