To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

- Charles Edward Montague

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duty from the front line.

- Charles Edward Montague

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains o…

- Charles Edward Montague

Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

- Charles Edward Montague

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

- Charles Edward Montague

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…

- Charles Edward Montague

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

- Charles Edward Montague

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

- Charles Edward Montague

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the l…

- Charles Edward Montague