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

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

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.

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

May our twilights mix togetherlike breath and breathlessness.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

The grape becomes tinted from the grape it comes in contact with.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

Despite the economic disaster that is Russia, there are still air shows taking place in the country.

When we are aligned, everything can flow, and life and yoga becomes effortless.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."