Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Jean Larteguy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French writer Jean Larteguy.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Jean Larteguy

Jean Lartéguy was the pen name of Jean Pierre Lucien Osty, a French writer, journalist, and former soldier.

The other would be the real one, composed entirely of young enthusiasts in camouflage uniforms, who would not be put on display, but from whom impossible efforts would be demanded and to whom all sorts of tricks would be taught. That's the army in which I should like to fight.
I'd like to have two armies: one for display with lovely guns, tanks, little soldiers, staffs, distinguished and doddering generals, and dear little regimental officers who would be deeply concerned over their general's bowel movements or their colonel's piles, an army that would be shown for a modest fee on every fairground in the country.
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