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| When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime. | | Uncategorized | |
| When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. | | Criticism; Government; T-Shirt | |
| When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened | | Worry | |
| When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken | | Uncategorized | |
| When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. | | Uncategorized | |
| When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. | | War | |
| When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. | | Uncategorized | |
| When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. | | War | |
| When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found | | Family | |
| Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears | | Uncategorized | |
| with her factories equipped to the very latest point of science by British and American money. | | Uncategorized | |
| Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed | | Uncategorized | |
| Without courage all virtues lose their meaning. | | Courage | |
| Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. | | Art; Traditions | |
| Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. | | Uncategorized | |
| Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public. | | Writing | |
| Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. | | Uncategorized | |
