You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.