And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.

Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.