Quote by Richard Holmes Download Open image ““People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier”” — Richard Holmes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009” — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“British generals often gave away in stupidity what they had gained in ignorance.” — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“Colonel Ridge Zirkander isn’t the model of military professionalism—he has a tendency to say exactly what’s on his mind, and his record has enough… — Lindsay Buroker Copy Share Image
“Employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes the confidence of the… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
“First of all, I’m not a ‘military type.’ Second, I never proclaimed to be a gentleman of any kind. I just like the facts… — Sara Walter Ellwood Copy Share Image
Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman. — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in ease and… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“He had discovered early in his military career that if one has an effective and experienced officer above, coupled with effective and experienced soldiers… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
A man who knew his job as he spent a long time commanding a regiment and who earned great respect from everybody. — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank.… — Bob Ainsworth Copy Share Image
“Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians… — Gregory Feifer Copy Share Image
“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Into this stronghold of royalist tradition and prejudice, Shelley unloaded truckloads of French philosophy, German horror novels, his solar microscope and several crates of… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“He (the British soldier) is generally beloved by two sorts of Companion, in whores and lice, for both these Vermin are great admirers of… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life began; So is it now I… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009” — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
