Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.