“Ill usage makes the sweetest of us vicious.”

“If every one of you was to clean before his own front door, all would be clean of cow flops.”

“Monthly, out of common courtesy, he went to inquire after the invalid Charles, who refused either to die or get better.”

“I could say how well he dances, but that isn't true, for he dances like that big friendly bear I saw last Christmas.”

“In the depths of horror and despair, one comes to a new steadiness. There is no farther to fall.”

“All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.”

“And what of this young woman beside him, whom he had loved devotedly for four years and still did love? She had given him more than Elizabeth ever could: months of unflawed relationship, unquestion...”

“God, thought Ross, it does work, and unfairly; but I want her, not any other, not the most beautiful eighteen-year-old damsel born out of a sea-shell, not the most seductive houri of any sultan's h...”

“You're stubborn- anyone ever tell you that before?”

“Wouldn't want to miss a war, would I?”

“In some ways blowjobs are better than sex because when you have a mouthful of cock you can't make snide comments.”

“War is what happens when language fails.”

“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”