Charles Edward Montague Quotes

"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation."
- Charles Edward Montague
(Related: Quotation, Spring)

"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
(Related: Care, Credit, Man)

"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

"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
(Related: Patriotism, May)

"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
(Related: Lie, Will)