"War hath no fury like a non-combatant." — Charles Edward Montague
"War hath no fury like a non-combatant."
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Charles Edward Montague
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10 Quotes by Charles Edward Montague
Charles Edward Montague has 10 quotes on this site.
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you…
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Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping…
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To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and…
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A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.
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Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because…
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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who…
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To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
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The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his…
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More Combatant Quotes
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one of 13 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his…
— Sun Tzu
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Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight...…
— Sun Tzu
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Golf is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological,…
— Arnold Haultain
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The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on…
— Sun Tzu
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Forty years after a battle it is easy for a non-combatant to reason about how it ought to have been…
— Herman Melville
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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The First Lady and I both spotted the President standing under the mistletoe and she moved in to grab a…
— Pete Souza
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If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they…
— Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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NON-COMBATANT, n. A dead Quaker.
— Ambrose Bierce
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The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The world had ended, so why had the battle not ceased, the castle fallen silent in horror, and every combatant…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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