I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Few women and fewer men have enough character to be idle.

There are two words for everything.

A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.

There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

There is no diplomacy like candor.

Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!