Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.