The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Business, like a jackal, trotted on the heels of war.

One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

He died in the middle of our conversation. How rude.

I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.

The rules of magic, my dear, are best not discusses. For once we understand the illusion, we no longer believe it.

Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

I don't believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god, l would believe in gods.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.