Aristrocracy is like cheese. The older it is the higher it becomes.

The nations slithered over the brink into the boiling cauldron of war without any trace of apprehension or dismay... The nations backed their machines over the precipice not one of them wanted war, certainly not on this scale

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink.