Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.

I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.

The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.