Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

If I am told to be at a shoot at 10 A.M., I am ready on time. By 11:30, I lose my patience. After that, I keep threatening to leave the sets if they don't begin soon. It works sometimes.

Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

I don't need to be looking at every failure of government, I need to be looking where failure of government needs reform.

I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.

I am an outspoken person. I believe in what I say.

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.