The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right.

Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job.

...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.