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.

Writing a book is an adventure.

The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.