"Politeness is half good manners and half good lying."

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."

"The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now."

"A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating."

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live."

"The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again."

"The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth."

"Knowledge is love and light and vision."