"I loved the Army as an institution and……" — Simon Raven
"I loved the Army as an institution and loathed every single thing it required me to do."
—
Simon Raven
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
11 Quotes by Simon Raven
Simon Raven has 11 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make…
-
Art for art's sake, money for God's sake.
-
Christ asked for everything he got.
-
Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.
-
And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had…
-
Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.
-
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
-
... life is short and the world is wide
-
How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
-
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We…
See all 11 quotes by Simon Raven »
More Army Quotes
This quote is filed under Army Quotes,
one of 1,821 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
— Arthur Ashe
-
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
— Pearl Bailey
-
That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
-
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
-
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
-
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
-
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
-
I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
-
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
-
My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
— James Blunt
-
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
-
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
See all 1,821 Army Quotes »