Quotes from Richard Hillary

I love the capital. The wind on the health might call for a time, but the facile glitter of the city was the stronger. Self-esteem, I suppose, is one cause; for in the city, work of man, one is somebody, feet on the pavement, suit on the body, anybody's equal and nobody's fool; but in the country, work of god, one is nothing, less than the earth, the birds, and the trees; one is discordant - a blot.

Oxford has been called many names, from 'the city of beautiful nonsense' to 'an organized waste of time

It is maintained by some that travel has no educational value, that a person with sensibility can gain as rich an experience of life by staying right where he is as by wandering around the world, and that a person with no sensibility may as well remain at home anyway. To me this is nonsense, for if one is a bore, I maintain that it is better to be a bore about Peshawar than Upper Tooting.

some Squadrons doesn't receive quite the same

Quoique sans patrie et sans roi, Et très brave ne l'étant guere, J'ai voulu mourir à la guerre. La mort n'a pas voulu de moi.