I am not sure I should have dared to start; but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.