Soldier Quotes

A Good Soldier is one of my favorite novels, for various reasons. But the class question is a good one, because it's not always easy to empathize with privileged people.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

The only acceptable imperialism is the Imperialism of the Forest! Let the whole world are invaded by the tree-soldiers!

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Not much over £1,000 a month for the private soldier on operations is hardly an impressive figure.

The soldiers of Saddam Hussein have given them a lesson they will never forget.

These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

We will form an army of poor, where every poor will be a soldier and we will win the war against poverty on behalf of their strength.

I read 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford again every so often.

American Sniper focuses on a soldier with 160 kills, or as Harvey Weinstein calls it, a slow morning.

Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.

Everything said, you couldn't hope for a nicer day to have a half dozen ex-soldiers with hunting bows relieve you of everything you owned.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife.And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

Open your eyes, soldier,” Tatiana said fondly, caressing his face.“Are you hungry?” “I was hungry,” Alexander said. “But you fed me.” His body was shaking underneath his sheet.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

Look around you: there is not a doctor who desires the health of his friends, not a soldier who desires peace for his country.

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not too far removed from the seventeenth century.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers roll.

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.

A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color.

Brave is good - especially when you are a soldier.

Actors are just soldiers who follow commands.

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet, the good player.

Man is not a farmer, or a professor, or an engineer, but he is all. Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.