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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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 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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The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
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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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If men live decently it is because discipline saves their very lives for them.
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The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.
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Our lives will be measured by what we do for others.
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Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
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Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
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Typical of our recent classes, this one is well-balanced.
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Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
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And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.
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When you set out for Ithaca, ask that your way be long
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If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
