My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

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.

Don't cheat the foundation of a house because you want to save for the roofing for at the end, you will have only roofed rubbles.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.

Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Knowing our personal mission further enhances the flow of mysterious coincidences as we are guided toward our destinies.

No one has really ever defined what a friend is.

Life is too short to worry about what others say about you. Have fun and give them something to talk about.

Behold the Zebra on the plains, And shudder at his mighty manes!

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?

I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.