If we don't end war, war will end us.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

The true sweetness of chess, if it ever can be sweet, is to see a victory snatched, by some happy impertinence, out of the shadow of apparently irrevocable disaster.

He spares no resource in telling of his dead inventions... Bare verbs he rarely tolerates. He splits infinitives and fills them up with adverbial stuffing. He presses the passing colloquialism into his service. His vast paragraphis sweat and struggle; the

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.