Paul Johnson Quotes - Page 3

• If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

  Paul Johnson

  Hunting, Delight, Want

  1996 To Hell With Picasso, and Other Essays.

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• I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.

  Paul Johnson

  Boys, Editors, Littles

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• In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'.

  Paul Johnson

  Dog, Europe, Chinese

  Paul Johnson (1991). "Tiempos modernos: el mundo de los años veinte a los noventa", HarperCollins Publishers

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• John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre talents can carry him.

  Paul Johnson

  Men, Political, Obscurity

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• I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie.

  Paul Johnson

  New York, Libro, Escritura

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• It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections

  Paul Johnson

  Running, America, Leader

  Paul Johnson (1991). "Tiempos modernos: el mundo de los años veinte a los noventa", HarperCollins Publishers

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