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'.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.