I'm self-conscious enough about my height ( 5 foot 5 inches, if you must know) and then today my typist showed me this nonsense comedy sketch, Monty Python, involving archaeologists competing over who has the greater stature. I sincerely do no understand what height has to do with archaeology and would be happy if someone could explain it to me. It ( Read more... )

"I compared Lawrence once with Hamlet, a Hamlet who had slain his uncle neatly and efficiently at the beginning of Act II, had spent the remainder of the play in repenting his act and writing a long explanation of it to Horatio, and then had retired to a monastery."
--A.P. Wavell

It's lucky no one has been inspired to write a play about me yet.

I believe this amusing image sufficiently expresses my frustration and my urge to shout, "I told you so!"

I warned them at the Paris Peace Conference...

( ...But did they listen? )