Blood, Class and Empire Quotes

“Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“Inthe first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“It is beyond doubt that wherever the United States needed to lose any kind of virginity in global affairs, the British were on hand with unguents and aphrodisiacs of all kinds.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“In the first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“The two most obvious English mutations to have occurred in America in the last decade go by the names "punk" and "skinhead.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English could expose the American addict to ridicule and even contempt.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“English muffin," a confection so grim that it could not have been sold in England even in wartime.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“It was only when the Britain of great prewar dominions had become a memory that nostalgia for it became possible.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“George Bush is a WASP. George Wallace may have been a white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon descent, and even rather vocal on all three points, but a WASP he was not.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship

“Why not, in exchange for the pains and humiliations of being superseded, at least exert the influence that the effete may always bring to bear upon the brash?”
― Christopher Hitchens, Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship