Charles Edward Montague — English Journalist born on January 01, 1867, died on May 28, 1928

Charles Edward Montague,, was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays... (wikipedia)

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