If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.

Without work men are utterly undone

To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if that be so, we were certainly engineers.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.

I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.