I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Prisoners at the bar, have you anything to say in your defence?

It is my experience that no one, in the course of conversation, can fail to give themselves away sooner or later. Everyone has an irresistible urge to talk about themselves.