We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

The only guide to man is his conscience.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

[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.

Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.