If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is extraordinary how having done a thing once you have to do it again, there is the pleasure of coincidence and there is the pleasure of repetition, and so there is the second world war, and in between there was the Abyssinian war and the Spanish civil war.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

This joy you feel is life.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.