Charles Edward Montague

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

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 duties from the front line.

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.

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.

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