Those who only know England know not England.

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.