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. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
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… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
“Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations. — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
A lot of our fellow liberals ... seem to me rather to doom themselves to futility in public affairs because the won't recognize that… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
