Quotes from Charles Edward Montague

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

War hath no fury like a noncombatant.

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.

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

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.

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.