Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.

Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. And then there's the multitude who mean to have bathrooms and white enamel. Millions of them; all over the world. Not merely here. And there aren't enough bathrooms and white enamel in the world to go round.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.