The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

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.

I am happy.I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve.I am happy.

Those of little understanding say the world will soon end. It is the current age that is coming to an end. The end of this age is the beginning of the next.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.

I would like to be going all over the kingdom...and acting everywhere. There's nothing in the world equal to seeing the house rise at you, one sea of delightful faces, one hurrah of applause!

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

Christianity spread rapidly during the first century because all Christians saw themselves as responsible for disseminating the gospel.

I like writing sentences. It's tactile and exciting. Whereas working at the level of the scene is a more cerebral pleasure.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.