It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.

“The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazin…”

“Yes, a war is inevitable. Firstly, there's you fellows who can't be trusted. An…”

“It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guara…”

“This, Tietjens thought, is England! A man and a maid walk through Kentish grass…”