We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

When I was a young subaltern in the South African War, the water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable we had to put a bit of whiskey in it. By diligent effort I learned to like it.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.