I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

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.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

...you have to be godly to be wise ...

I MUST BE A TIME TRAVELLER BECAUSEI AM ALWAYS AHEAD OF MY TIME

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I misse

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Beasts of like kind will spare those of kindred spots.

To be honest with you, a lot of directors can be very lazy.

Shopping at any level is a bit of therapy for my medulla oblongata.

An intellectual hate is the worst.