When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

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.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.