In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.