The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so.

And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of May, And touched the nodding peony flowers to bid them waken.

The dead...are more real than the living because they are complete.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin they think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

Life for the majority of the population. Is an unlovely struggle against unfair odds. Culminating in a cheap funeral.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

It was the moment I heard your laughter. The moment I heard us laughing, two cascades in the middle of a desert, careless and uninhibited.

A desert lily need not turn jealous eyes toward the common violet.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Fortunately for children the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.

How many books did Renoir write on how to paint?

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.