Without work men are utterly undone.
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
Doubt if he’d have made the grade for the rabbit pack, though. He wasn’t fierce enough; he was one of those bumbling, good humoured, rather incompetent dogs, good for a lonely man or girl to look afte...
When you and I are dead, and all the rest of us who served in the last war, in all the countries, she said, there’ll be a chance of world peace. Not till then.
Adventure
I didn't wait to see her ship go off, because partings are stupid things and best got over quickly
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
We are not like that, we engineers. We are men of understanding and of education, on whom is laid responsibility that men may travel in these aeroplanes as safely as if they were sitting by the well i...
All those cities, all those fields and farms, with nobody, and nothing left alive. Just nothing there. I simply can't take it in.
People who spent the war in prison camps have written a lot of books about what a bad time they had, she said quietly, staring into the embers. they don't know what it was like, not being in a camp.
I stopped reading and stared round the room. There were the new curtains, the new shades on all the lamps, the deep new pile of the Indian carpet beneath my feet, the new loose cover of the chair that...
He was one of that great class of Englishmen who love their wives and trust them unquestioningly with their money and their honour, but are apt to hedge a little over their motor-cars.
By 1948 I was safe on my feet and able to get about quite normally, but I was thirty-four and life was slipping past me. I could not face burial alive in Coombargana at that age after all that I had b...
It was so beautiful', he said. 'the Three Pagodas Pass must be one of the loveliest places in the world. you've got this broad valley with the river running down it, and the jungle forest, and the mou...
Halliard
After all that I had read during the night. Even into this quiet place the war had reached like the tentacle of an octopus and had touched this girl and brought about her death. Like some infernal mon...
Until we’re dead, we Service people, the world will always be in danger of another war. We had too good a time in the last one. We’ll none of us come out into the open and admit it. It might be better...
It appeared in the bar window next morning. It read: THIS HOUSE IS FOR ENGLISHMEN AND COLOURED AMERICAN TROOPS ONLY
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
She had known for some time that his wife and family were very real to him, more real by far than the half-life in a far corner of the world that had been forced upon him since the war.