I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method — Christopher Vokes

"Some more of Montys boys came up, soon after Malone had left but they, too, spent their time getting shelled by the ever-persistent Germans. Likewise, they departed, their minds expanded and their sphinctres contracted."

"I wanted people who wouldnt become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties cant be allowed to affect decisions, unless its evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this."

"The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth."

"In Ceylon I had a black nurse who wet - nursed me. Years later I was told by my father that she said of me:"This boy plenty belly, big stick."

"I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II."

"I believe that one cant command sitting on ones ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders, even as far as battalion commanders, especially if one is fighting a defensive action. One simply has to know what is going on."