"I am ready to die, but I am not ready to surrender."

"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

"The English are not a logical people. They are a historical people."

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip."