The War office kept three sets of figures - one to mislead the public, another to mislead the cabinet and the third to mislead itself.

We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed, in defiance of international good faith, by the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.

We are within measurable, or imaginable, distance of a real Armageddon. Happily there seems to be no reason why we should be anything more than spectators.

Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.

Greatness is a zigzag streak of lightning in the brain.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

Everything I learn to say or do because I love.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

I never wanted Manchester United to be second to anybody. Only the best would be good enough.

It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.

Before I knew what was happening, I had a fistful of spears around my neck like a collar. I could have shaved myself with one sneeze.

Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began. Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.

Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

Hunger is a powerful persuader if it happens, and it's conceivable that it could happen. Country people have always known this.