Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.