For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.