Quotes by Charles Montague

• War hath no fury like a non-combatant.
• To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.