As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Here ends the story of a ship, but there will always be other ships, for we are an island race. Through all our centuries, the sea has ruled our destiny. There will always be other ships and men to sail in them. It is these men, in peace or war, to whom we owe so much. Above all victories, beyond all loss, in spite of changing values in a changing world, they give to us, their countrymen, eternal and indomitable pride.

He must have been an incredibly good shot.

Goodnight, my darlings, I'll see you tomorrow.

Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed.

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.