I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.