Simon Hoggart (Simon David Hoggart) Quotes
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
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I'm not saving lives.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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There are so many young women coming up through the ranks. Adele is an amazing singer. Beyonce has great stage presence. She's just a beautiful woman. I love how everyone has just taken charge of their lives and careers.
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I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.
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I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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Classes? Categories? Was that what we had come to?
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Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?
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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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So many people have that relationship. The companionship. The connection. To our - to other beings, our pets. I hate to call them pets. But you know, to other creatures that we share our lives with.
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Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
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We must be proactive in our love in order for it to change our lives.
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It blew my mind that what I was thinking was actually applicable to people's lives, and it certainly revolutionized family.
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It would be a fine thing, in which I hardly dare believe, to pass our lives near each other, hypnotized by our dreams.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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... the community suffers nothing very terrible if its cobblers are bad and become degenerate and pretentious; but if the Guardians of its laws and constitution, who alone have the opportunity to bring it good government and prosperity, become a mere sham, then clearly it is completely ruined.
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Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I'll stay. If he shot me so, I'd expire with a blessing on my lips.
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I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
