Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

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

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.