Victory, speedy and complete, awaits the side that employs air power as it should be employed.

There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.

Attacks on cities are strategically justified in so far as they tend to shorten the war and so preserve the lives of allied soldiers.

War is a nasty, dirty, rotten business. It's all right for the Navy to blockade a city, to starve the inhabitants to death. But there is something wrong, not nice, about bombing that city.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.

...HH Beard has perfected ...3 excellent (urine) cancer tests, all of proven accuracy of 95% or better..... in 1942 and onwards.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

I never know, " Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?""Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it, " said Hagrid.

The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.

The personality must be bigger than the prop.

You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

The question is how the questioner exists.

I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.