British army Quote by Rick Atkinson

“I would sooner read the catalogue of the Army and Navy Stores or Bradshaw's Guide than nothing at all, and indeed I have spent…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their…

— Robert Jackson

“The charm of your writing,” Evelyn Waugh once wrote to Mitford, “depends on your refusal to recognize a distinction between girlish chatter and literary…

— Nancy Mitford

“I was a specialist machine gunner so I had the privilege of humping a Browning water cooled over ten miles of jungle trails and…

— Jim Proser

“If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“Thus, though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.”

— Sun Tzu

“I have heard that in war haste can be folly, but have never seen delay that was wise.”

— Sun Tzu

“If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow…

— Charles Brandt

“Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact intersected with this darkling plain.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still more a…

— Jane Austen

“Kaiser Wilhelm II strengthened the military and launched Germany on an irresponsible combative journey. His arrogance proved to be his undoing.”

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One

“And I served as an officer in the army.” “Very impressive. I’ve been told that war is boredom interspersed with violence and terror.”

— Julie Anne Long