As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Weakness is strength.

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.