16 Quotes by Charles Edward Montague

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

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.

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

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

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