John

“Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.”
― Harry S. Truman

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”
― Winston Churchill

“It was his shoes, he noticed to his pleasure, that she most objected to; and he thought: bloody good, that's what shoes are for.”
― John le Carré, A Small Town in Germany

“She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted off the entire bows in one shattering detonations. For a second, the lightened fo'c'sle reared high into the air" then it plunged down, deep down, into the shoulder of a rolling sea. She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spinning screws. The still thundering engines her own executioners.”
― Alistair MacLean, HMS Ulysses