I prefer lies to truth, especially when the lies are about me.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.

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.

I've been and am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen and I'm quite ordinary, and will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

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

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.