The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.