Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

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.

There is no working middle course in wartime.

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.