Guardian Unlimited: Hugo Young - Archives of the weekly column in The Guardian by the political journalist and author of This Blessed Plot, Political Lives, and One of Us: The Life of Margaret Thatcher.
New York Times Books: Beyond the Chunnel - Review by Geoffrey Wheatcroft of Hugo Young's book, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair. Includes the first chapter in full.
The June Press: This Blessed Plot - Review by Daniel Hannan of Hugo Young's book. "An insider's history of Britain and the European Community written with pervasive authority and a lot of wit."
Rafe Mair Online: Vancouver Province - Thoughts from a Canadian perspective of the issues raised in Hugo Young's book, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair.
Online NewsHour: The European Angle -- April 21, 1999 - European journalists Hugo Young, Christine Ockrent, Josef Joffe and Lucio Caracciolo discuss the war in Kosovo and what may lie ahead for the upcoming NATO summit.
Ampleforth: Hugo Young - Biography, obituary and funeral Mass information from News for Old Amplefordians.
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Young, Hugo There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Young, Hugo
America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Young, Hugo When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Young, Hugo
"Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Young, Hugo The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Young, Hugo
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Young, Hugo A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Young, Hugo
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Young, Hugo The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Young, Hugo
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Young, Hugo Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Young, Hugo
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Young, Hugo The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Young, Hugo
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Young, Hugo Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Young, Hugo
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Young, Hugo Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Young, Hugo
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Young, Hugo "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Young, Hugo
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Young, Hugo Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Young, Hugo
