War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

- John Hay Beith

Today a Scot is leading a British army in France [Field Marshall Douglas Haig], another is commanding the British Grand Fleet at sea [Admiral David B…

- John Hay Beith

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

- John Hay Beith