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Charles Edward Montague Quotes
Page 1 of 1Charles Edward Montague
January 1, 1867 - May 28, 1928
Nationality: English
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: English Journalist
|  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. | | 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. | | 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. | | Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person. | | War hath no fury like a non-combatant. | | To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation. |
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