The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.