You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the...
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis...
I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
