Your honour calls you hence...
And all the gods go with you! Upon your sword
Sit laurel victory.
Antony and Cleopatra I,3
- William Shakespeare
Away, boy, from the troops, and save thyself;
For friends kill friends, and the disorder's such
As war were hoodwink'd.
Cymbeline V,2
- William Shakespeare
Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Romans; great the answer be
Britons must take.
Cymbeline V, 3
- William Shakespeare
Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry 'Havoc', and let slip the dogs of war.
Julius Caesar III, 1
- William Shakespeare
Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty
Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
King John IV, 3
William Shakespeare
We must have bloody noses and crackled crowns,
And make them current too.
1 Henry IV II, 3
- William Shakespeare
Sound all the lofty instruments of war,
And by that music let us all embrace;
For, heaven to earth, some of us never shall
A second time do such a courtesy.
1 Henry IV V, 2
- William Shakespeare
They come like sacrifices in their trim,
And to the fire-eyed maid of smoky war
All hot and bleeding will we offer them.
1 Henry IV IV, 1
- William Shakespeare
From camp to camp through the foul womb of night
The hum of either army stilly sounds.
Henry V Prologue IV
- William Shakespeare
When the blast of war blows in our ears
Then imitate the action of the tiger,
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with ill-favour'd rage.
Henry V III, 1
- William Shakespeare
O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts.
Henry V IV, 1
- William Shakespeare
"I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly we would just throw up."
- Mel Brooks - Newsweek, February 17, 1975
"I found out why war is he - army authority is absolute. You are defended and judged by the same kind of people who accuse and prosecute you."
- Michael Caine - Playboy, 1996
"In many movies, including Platoon, war looks like fun. In reality, a dead body is cheap and I wanted to rub that in the audience's face."
- Patrick Duncan director of 84 Charlie Mopic - film yearbook, 1990
"When I got back from the war in 1945, I refused to make war pictures."
- James Stewart - Time, June 29 1970
