Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.