Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

To improve is to change.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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.