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.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

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

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.