Quotes from Allan Massie

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Life is not mathematics, and few things have only one correct answer

Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and this scene served as a compliment to him.

The word 'steward' derives from the Anglo-Saxon 'stig', meaning a hall, and 'weard', which is ward, guardian or keeper.

Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war.

Do you know what a soldier is, young man? He's the chap who makes it possible for civilized folk to despise war.