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

Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.