Charles Edward Montague Quotes

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

Charles Edward Montague

#2. 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

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

Charles Edward Montague

#4. Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Charles Edward Montague

#5. 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.

Charles Edward Montague

#6. War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

Charles Edward Montague

#7. To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Charles Edward Montague

#8. 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.

Charles Edward Montague

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

Charles Edward Montague

#10. 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.

Charles Edward Montague

#11. 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.

Charles Edward Montague