"I cannot pretend to be impartial about..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.”

“We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.”

“It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.”

“All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.”

“The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.”

“It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.”

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”