Top 1200 Good Soldier Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

Not very good with death? Father was a military man, and military men lived with death; lived for death; lived on death. To a professional soldier, oddly enough, death was life.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step.

My favourite book - 'The Good Soldier' by Ford Madox Ford, which I have read about 20 times - is different from my favourite author, who is Iris Murdoch. I find her books exciting and unputdownable. Her characters are so carefully studied and in-depth; I love that.

I was born as a soldier and will die as one.

The soldier is the army.

Tatiana and the soldier were having a silence

Soldier, rest! Thy warfare o'er.

And the first king was a lucky soldier.

I'm a combat soldier.

At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.

As wars come and go, my soldier stays eternal

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

Let the soldier yield to the civilian.

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

A warrior with a cause is the most dangerous soldier of all

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

Every lover is a soldier.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

I've never actually been exposed to the hardships that proper soldiers endure. I also think you need a particular constitution to be a soldier - built a certain way and wired a certain way. I don't know if I'd be too good with being told what to do all the time. I am a law-abider, but I've got a lot of questions and opinions, so maybe not.

If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.

The sex is ever to a soldier kind.

Every soldier is an enemy.

Ambition, the soldier's virtue.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep himself erect, shouldering his gun bravely. A door was suddenly opened, the draught caught the little dancer and she fluttered like a sylph, straight into the fire, to the soldier, blazed up and was gone! By this time the soldier was reduced to a mere lump, and when the maid took away the ashes next morning she found him, in the shape of a small tin heart. All that was left of the dancer was her spangle, and that was burnt as black as a coal.

To be a successful soldier, you must know history.

How red the rose that is the soldier

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.

You want to make me the best soldier possible. Go down and look at the standings. Look at the all-time standings. So far you're doing an excellent job with me. Congratulations. Now when are you going to put me up against a good army?

And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.

The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

I want to be a soldier as my father was.

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

I would have been a disastrous soldier.

My dad was always the soldier I wanted to be.

I never expect a soldier to think.

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.

Sharpe is my favorite role of all that I've played. He's a very complex character. He knows that he's a good soldier, but he will always have to fight the prejudice of aristocratic officers because of his rough working-class upbringing. On the battlefield, he's full of confidence - but off it, he is unsure, a bit shy and ill at ease.

My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.

In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.

Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18 months at a good civilian job, a phone call had brought the retired command sergeant major back on active duty to become the senior enlisted adviser of all international forces in Afghanistan.

My theme song is 'One Tin Soldier' by Coven.