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

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.

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.

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

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal.

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

Who dare to love their country, and be poor.

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".

I always wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old and I wrote my first book.

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.

The Divine Music is incessantly ringing within all of us, but the loud senses drown the delicate Music, which is unlike and infinitely superior to anything we can perceive with our senses.

Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.