Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.

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

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

Cling tight to your sense of humour. You will need it every day.

A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.