I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it.

[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a good topic - with myself the chief conversationalist.