There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

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 if everyone knew how beautiful Jesus is how amiable He is! Fhey would all die from love.

The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.

I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

We know others to the extent that we know ourselves.

The greatest leverage for healing is found at the subtlest levels of function.

I like working one-on-one with someone, and I think that to go to a school of acting isn’t really my thing.