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Arnold Ridley Quotes

d. 1984 England

William Arnold Ridley (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor.

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Yes, sir. My battalion is famous for self-inflicted wounds and just to make sure I cracked my skull with a rifle butt as well and ran a bayonet into my groin.

It wasn't a question of if I get killed, it was merely a question of when I get killed.

I didn't go to France to murder people.

I thought I was doing my duty for my country. I didn't know I was going to be treated like a convict. Did it make better soldiers of the callow youths we were then? I doubt it.

I always remember my disappointment the next morning when I found that my hand was still on because I thought, well, if I lost my hand I'm all right, I shall live, they can't send me out without a hand again. I was 20 then, it's not altogether a right thought for a young man to hope that he's been maimed for life.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arnold Ridley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.