16 Quotes by Charles Edward Montague

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.