The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

Napoleon is always right.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

The end was contained in the beginning.