Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.