Honestly, I haven't the time to read contemporary writers. I know this is awful, but in the main it is true.
Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
Are we savages or what?
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.
The Navy's a very gentlemanly business. You fire at the horizon to sink a ship and then you pull people out of the water and say, 'Frightfully sorry, old chap.'