The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
A joke is a very serious thing.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Terminological inexactitude
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
History is written by the victors.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.