Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.