In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The peril of the hour moved the British to tremendous exertions, just as always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible. Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Sweat saves blood, blood saves lives, but brains saves both.

One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization.

Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?