... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . . .