Quotes About Philip Hoare

Billing was an archetypal playboy, 'fascinated by fast aircraft, fast speed-boats, fast cars and fast women – he was highly attractive to women

in a recent article in The Times entitled 'The Ferment of Revolution' 'it was suggested that there was a danger of the vast mass of the people becoming revolutionary in their ideas'. This he found an insult to the working classes.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue,' wrote Oscar Wilde in The Soul of Man Under Socialism.

the refusal of a licence – the banning of Salome – was entirely due to Billing's antics, and not to any serious objection by the Lord Chamberlain;

If true, this meant Billing was guilty, if not of treason, then certainly insurrection. In a world worried by revolution and the rise of the radical right, he was a dangerous man.