Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...