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

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.

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.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

Remember that the Clerget lands very fast, at over forty miles an hour, and with that great engine in the nose the tail was light. Watch it... Lovely.

She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.

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