You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

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.

Inspiration is external and motivation is internal. It is up to me to provide the switch and you to flip it on!

She marched to the door and said, "if I ever marry, Patrick O'Sullivan, I shall make sure that my mate for life is a decent woman, or even, maybe, a book.

Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love grace and gratitude.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.

I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness — a real thorough-going illness.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

I love female singer-songwriters!

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds.