A great country cannot wage a little war.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I am here just to express my love.I am here just to be kind.I am here just to enhance the beauty.I am here just to care for the humanity.

Having writers block sucks more than my actual writing. And my writing would be astonishing if I could write how I feel.

I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.

If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

Anyone who doesn't think the welfare-industrial complex is trying to increase dependency isn't paying attention.

I clicked on a pop-up and got caught in a pornado.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.