Generals Quotes

126 quotes by 107 authors

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I made all my generals out of mud. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly… — Leonard Cohen
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles… — Duke of Wellington
Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals! — George III
We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast… — Mark Twain
In your deliberations, when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of a comparison, in this wise: which of the… — Sun Tzu
Good generals select intelligent officers, thoughtful advisors, and brave subordinates. They oversee their troops like a fierce tiger with wings. — Zhuge Liang
The relative size of your force as against that of your adversary is by itself of no consequence. What controls is the relative size of… — Sun Tzu
When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it. — Duke of Wellington
During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel… — Abraham Lincoln
At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This… — Barry McCaffrey
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals than in particulars; and to… — David Hume
Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and… — George Wald
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip. — Barbara Tuchman
Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates. — F. E. Adcock
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… — Jean Larteguy
It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows… — Paddy Chayefsky
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian,… — David Lloyd George

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