The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.