“The first point is always important, more so in a Wimbledon final”

“Were you serious when you said I might win someday at Wimbledon?"Claire answered, "There's so much that's pure luck, good or bad. The weather can be terrible. We always say we should re-schedule Wimbledon and hold it in the summer!"I frowned. "Wimbledon is in the summer."Claire sighed. "It's a joke, Fiona.""Oh.”

“To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.”

“The first rule for escaping prison in the United States is always having someone more important than yourself to incriminate.”

“never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's...”

“There must always be a first," said Jem. "It is not easy to be first, and it is not always rewarding, but it is important.”