William Maxwell Aitken Quotes

Success never depended on pandering to the public taste. It has always been founded on simplicity.

Unless a newspaper can make its material in every department interesting it simply is not read.

Here I must say, in my eighty-sixth year, I do not feel greatly different from when I was eighty-five. This is my final word. It is time for me to become an apprentice once more. I have not settled in which direction. But somewhere, sometime soon.

I am now in my eighty-fourth year and that is approaching the moment when I must bring out my Late Night Final.

He did not seem to care which way he traveled providing he was in the driver’s seat.

With the publication of his private papers in 1952, he committed suicide 25 years after his death.

I run the paper purely for the purpose of making propaganda, and with no other motive.

Our cock won’t fight.

He has all the qualities that go to the making of a leader of the Conservative Party. He is not stupid, but he is very dull. He is not eloquent, but he talks well. He is not honest, politically, but he is most evangelical. He has a little money, but not much. He always conforms to the party policy.

Churchill on top of the wave has in him the stuff of which tyrants are made.