I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.