"Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired……" — Robert Graves
"Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home."
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Robert Graves
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75 Quotes by Robert Graves
Robert Graves has 75 quotes on this site.
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Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to…
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat…
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
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There is one story and one story only.
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Before an attack, the platoon pools all its available cash and the survivors divide it up afterwards. Those who are…
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The old lady told me that all the girls in the village of Annezin prayed every night for the War…
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We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like…
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The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing…
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No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief…
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Marriage, like money, is still with us; and, like money, progressively devalued.
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To recommend a monarchy on account of the prosperity it gives the provinces seems to me like recommending that a…
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Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought,…
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More Battalion Quotes
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A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies…
— Theodor Adorno
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the…
— Hal Moore
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I hate to call it crossfire, what the rapid action battalion attributes for the custodial deaths, as there must be…
— Irene Khan
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Every battalion has its marching songs.
— Patrick MacGill
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Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter…
— Patrick MacGill
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its…
— Patrick MacGill
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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion…
— J F C Fuller
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Colonel John Alexander was an original member of the Earth Battalion and served in many interesting paranormal scouting efforts. Eventually…
— Unknown Author
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My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to…
— Nathaniel Fick
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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Like a battalion of marines at roll call, her neck hairs marshaled to five-alarm status. She stumbled back to her…
— Lori Wilde
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