Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

Christ asked for everything he got.

Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.

I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do.