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'.

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.

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.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

I like my hair long because I have really big ears.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work

What I'm concerned about now is creating a metaphor for what the figure really is.

Old man's gotta be the old man. Fish has got to be the fish. Gotta be who you are in this world, no matter what.

Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

If you just follow your inner calling, then you just go ahead.