To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown! Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers.
The greatest commander is he whose intuitions most nearly happen.
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.
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.