28 quotes
Only very young soldiers and head-cases object to boredom in war-time.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
That political correctness should have become acceptable in Britain is a glaring symptom of the country's decline.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
There are few sounds as menacing as a bayonet being fixed.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
Certainly no general [Slim] ever did more with less; in every way, he was one of the great captains.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
Whoever said that Russia was an enigma inside a something-or-other inside something else, was dead right. I don't understand the place yet.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
I must emphasise that at private soldier level you frequently have no idea where you are, or precisely how you got there, let alone why.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
I never said, and don't believe, that all Germans are Nazis. I'm just pretty sure that they're all Germans, and that is the point.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
Putting a grenade into a bunker had the satisfaction of doing grievous bodily harm to an enemy for whom I felt real hatred, and still do.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
Not that lance-jack [lance-corporal] is any great eminence; it is an appointment, not a rank, and is the worst dogs-body's job in the Army, as Hitler and I could tell you.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
To learn the age-old lesson day by day:
It is not in the bright arrival planned,
But in the dreams men dream along the way,
They find the Golden Road to Samarkand.
Flashman at the Charge (1973)
What matters above all is sovereignty, the right to make our own laws......the right to remain independent of the unworthy, undemocratic, unprincipled, authoritarian, bureaucratic rabble of Brussels.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
We all have kindly impulses, fostered by two thousand years of Christian teaching, gentle Jesus, and love thy neighbour, but we have the killer instinct, too, the murderous impulse of the hunter...
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
The stark truth, of course, is that they have not abolished the death penalty at all. They have merely transferred it from the guilty to the innocent - and incidentally ensured that many more violent deaths occur.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
A Gurkha subaltern whom I met later told me that commanding a platoon of them was like leading a group of perfectly-disciplined ten-year-olds, and I believed him.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
He [Anthony Crosland] and his Socialist fellow-theoreticians did a terrific job in degrading scholastic standards in the name of equality, which meant dragging down the good to the level of the mediocre.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
It is a habit of great countries of imperial pretensions to take the future for granted, as the Romans did in Trajan's day, and as Britons, with a few far-sighted exceptions, did at Victoria's jubilees, and Americans do now.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
Another discovery was that the size and importance of an action is no yardstick of its personal unpleasantness. A big operation which commands headlines may be a dawdle for some of those involved, while the little forgotten patrol is a real horror.
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)
First, I hope to see the British public resist the propaganda onslaught of the pro-Europeans, in which the broadcast media, led by the BBC, have shown themselves willing tools of the government, and vote a resounding "no" in the referendum, if and when it comes.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
For some reason which escapes me, there seems to be a feeling now that we have a moral duty to interfere in foreign disputes, and tell other countries how they should govern themselves, especially if so-called democracy is thought to be in danger.
The Light's On At Signpost (2002)
No one underestimated Jap: he might be a subhuman creature who tortured and starved prisoners of war to death, raped women captives, and used civilians for bayonet practice, but there was no braver soldier in the whole history of war, and if he fought to a finish...
Quartered Safe Out Here (1992)