There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

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.

Every new travel brings new transformation.

The real church is comprised of a long list of "formers" who collectively work together for world reform.

If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

The air was calm and insects had not yet risen off the water, that crisp time of morning before the sun strikes, when it is still cool enough to work out solutions to sticky problems.

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

I still am mystified about why Donald Trump is out there tweeting praise of Vladimir Putin, and still kind of denying and dismissing whether the hacking happened or the seriousness of it.

Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.

Oscove?" Valek paused. "He didn't have the stomach for it.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.