In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

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

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

When a new book appears one should read an old one.