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.'

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

... I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

There are bitter weeds in England.