Do not be afraid of taking a big step-you cannot cross a chasm in two steps.
A fully equipped duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and dukes are just as great a terror - and they last longer.
Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.
Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.
He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.
The world is becoming like a lunatic asylum run by lunatics.