The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.