Charles Edward Montague

Journalist

1867-01-01

Quotes by Charles Edward Montague

• To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

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• A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

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• There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

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• 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.

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• War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

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• Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

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