Quotes About Hectoring

I shall not miss the hectoring and backbiting and the lack of generosity towards fallen foes, but I will miss the sheer clubability of parliament. If one fancies a coffee or a meal or a drink then it is always possible to find at least one person out of 646 whose company is congenial.

One of my more hectoring voices, throughout my career, has been the one that says I ought to stop what I'm doing and make an outline.

Movements that hector and punish rather than educate and reform have a way of inviting derision and reaction.

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

leftist threats of redistribution had installed him as potentate redux, a starched-collar exemplar in the face of socialism's hectoring witch.