There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.