Cavalry Quotes
45 quotes by 39 authors
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To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
— Emily Dickinson
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To fight aloud, is very brave— But gallanter, I know Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Wo— Who win, and nations do not…
— Emily Dickinson
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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry…
— Dick Gregory
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Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away…
— Andy Grove
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There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
— George Armstrong Custer
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The women's movement burst forth when I was fifteen. That was when I began to believe that life might semi-work out after all. The cavalry…
— Anne Lamott
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By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 men - infantry, artillery,…
— James Monroe
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It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.
— Steven Pressfield
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It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer…
— Walt Whitman
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She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister…
— Kate Chopin
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Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked,…
— Leonard Cohen
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This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army of…
— Honore de Balzac
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Let me make sure I have this straight. The cavalry just now rode into town and it's a Czech Gypsy porn-star zombie killer. Have I…
— Richard Kadrey
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Basher shook his head. "No, we climbed in through a ground-floor guest bedroom all ninja-like. Snuck up the back stairs." "Then you might be the…
— Jonathan Maberry
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The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges…
— Rick Atkinson
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally…
— Giraldus Cambrensis
Who Wrote These Cavalry Quotes
39 authors contributed a total of 45 Cavalry Quotes, led by these top contributors: