"What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss"

“As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.”

“I've been a Danish prince, a Texas slave-dealer, an Arab sheik, a Cheyenne Dog Soldier, and a Yankee navy lieutenant in my time, among other things, and none of 'em was as hard to sustain as my lifetime's impersonation of a British officer and gentleman.”

Source : George MacDonald Fraser (2013). “Flashman in the Great Game: A Novel”, p.82, Penguin

“I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.”

“Strategy is a system of expedients”

Source : "Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings". Book by Daniel J. Hughe, p. 124, 1993.

“I thank the Prime Minister for his remarks about me. Debating with him at the Dispatch Box has been exciting, fascinating, fun, an enormous challenge and, from my point of view, wholly unproductive in every sense. I am told that in my time at the Dispatch Box I have asked the Prime Minister 1,118 direct questions, but no one has counted the direct answers-it may not take long.”

“A single action can cause a life to veer off in a direction it was never meant to go.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2009). “Testimony”, p.198, Hachette UK

“Every artist is different - the pop mentality is different than bands for me, because I'm playing a lot of the instruments.”

“All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.”