"War Movie Quotes" Topic

Our miniature wargaming group is planning a joint (no, I don't mean it that way although a few of our more uptight players could stand some loosening up) night out with several other wargaming groups. As part of the entertainment, I am making a list of wargamers trivia questions and have decided to base them on quotes from war movie dialogs.

Do you have a favorite quote/dialog line(s) from a war movie?

At a minimum I need the quote/dialog line(s) and the movie name. If you already know the movie's released date, featured actor(s), and/or the character/actor speaking the line(s) it would be helpful but is not necessary. I'm certainly willing to do that research myself.

The film's historical period, age, national origin, or level of historical accuracy is not important. Films such as The Longest Day, Zulu, Gettysburg, Cross of Iron, Waterloo, Patriot, A Bridge Too Far, Saving Private Ryan, In Harm's Way, Battle of Britain, Tora Tora Tora, Centurion, Flags of Our Fathers, What Price Glory, etc. come immediately to mind. But, in fact, any movie will do providing, in your judgment, the quote would be relevant/interesting/memorable/pertinent enough to interest the typical miniature wargamer. One of my favorite wargaming-relevant dialog lines from movies of this kind are from the 1999 film, The 13th Warrior. The character played by Antonio Bandaras speaks to his Viking warrior friend before they ride into battle:

Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan: Have we anything resembling a plan?
Herger the Joyous [ nodding ]: Mm-hm. Ride till we find them…and kill them all.

And who can forget "Run Away! Run Away!" from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail.

The only limitation is that the film is, or until recently was, generally available to an English-speaking audience. Foreign war movies dubbed or subtitled in English, for example the great German-made films Stalingrad and Das Boot (The Boat), are fine.

Thanks.

Waterloo, " This man can defend a hopeless position,…make him up to corporal!" Wellington to the Irish soldier with stolen pig.

"on my command..unleash hell" : Russell Crow (maximus) instructing his Second in command (Quintus) just before sending his 9th "Felix" legion forward to spank the unwashed behinds of some very naughty and hairy Germanic tribesmenn at the begining of the movie "Gladiator".

"A DEAL deal. Maybe the guy's a Republican." – crapgame, Kelly's Heroes

Virginia Mayo playing Lady Edith:

"War, War, War! That's all you ever think about, Dick Plantagenet! You burner, you pillager!"

Said to King Richard (George Sanders) in 'King Richard and the Crusaders' (1954)

Dick Plantagenet! You've got to love Hollywood's take on history.

Ferb

"Nothing scares me more than standing next to a friend of the Almighty." Waterloo

"Good, Johann, now get some sleep." Das Boot

"..it's a short chamber Boxer Henry point 45 caliber miracle." Zulu

Two quotes from The Alamo (2004), both spoken by Billy Bob Thornton portraying Davy Crockett:

(On first seeing the army of Santa Anna: "We are going to need a lot more men."

Awaiting the end: "If it was just me, simple old David from Tennessee. I might drop over that wall some night and take my chances. But that Davy Crockett feller…they're all watching him."

Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th." The Longest Day (1967)

"And a bayonet, with some guts behind it".

"It isn't random and it isn't light", Captain Deladier, Starship Troopers

"If only I once had such resources at my disposal" Wilhelm Bittrich, A Bridge To Far (although irl it was Kurt Student who said it, but hey, its a movie).

"Where is your platoon?" Captain Stransky, Cross of Iron

" In all of your dealings with me, you'll do me the courtesy to conduct yourself as a dead man." General D'Hubert, The Duellists.

"We shot them under rule 303", Harry Morant, 'Breaker Morant'.

I could play this game all day….

'I think that you will find more realists than Royalists in the King's Army'

'Only a general of brigade and recently promoted. Merely a minor imp of Satan'

Both from Kieth Caradine in Ridley Scott's 'The Duellists'. 1977?

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton, Paton

The lord says he can get me out of this mess, but he's pretty sure your ed!
Stephen the Irishman, Braveheart

My favorite from 13th warrior.
Ahmad Ibn Fahdlan: I cannot lift this (a heavy sword)
Herger the Joyous: Grow stronger

BoB:
We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded

Breaker Morand:
Shoot straight, you bastards. – Don't make a mess of it!

Holy Grail:
Help! I'm being repressed!

Battleground:
Pvt. Ernest J. "Pop" Stazak: I understand your problems, men. I was once an enlisted man, myself.
Holley: For six months, maybe. Then seventeen weeks at OCS and he's an officer and gentleman by special act of Congress.

Question:Where is Donald Duck?
Answer:At the crossroads with the machine gun.
Movie:The Dirty Dozen.

"because we're here lad..' color Sgt Bourne "Zulu"

'Get that wreck off the road!' A Bridge Too Far. Repeated in many WWII games since, usually at my expense.

The bit in "The Enemy Below" when the U-boat captain(Curt Jurgens)has his crew singing the "Dessauer March",and the sound is picked up by Robert Mitchum's destroyer,the officer played by David Hedison's reaction "They're havin' a ball down there!". Similarly,in "Down Periscope" when Kelsey Grammer rigs the sub to look like a fishing boat in the stormy weather,and leads the crew in the Kingsmen song "Louie-Louie" to fool the pursuing other sub .

Repeat please! – The Battle of Britain. YouTube link

"Come on, you fearless sons of Anzac"

"This is very bloody hairy -- a man could very easily get his arse shot off"

"Let the bastard burn!"

-- all from "The Odd Angry Shot

All the best,

John.

Two from Saving Private Ryan:

Sgt Horvath: Captain, if your mother saw you do that, she'd be very upset.
Cpt. Miller: I thought *you* were my mother.

Cpt. Miller: "The Statue of Liberty is kaput" – that's disconcerting.

One from Cromwell:

King Charles: A democracy, Mr. Cromwell, was a Greek drollery based on the foolish notion that there are extraordinary possibilities in very ordinary people.

Maybe not EXACT quotes but…

That's my boy, Hook! I've made a soldier of you! (Sgt. Maxfield, "Zulu")

Come with me and I'll show you where the iron crosses grow. (James Coburn's chararecter in "Cross of Iron")

Quest? We're peasant hunting! (response by a knight on horseback to a travelling student's question in war torn France during the HYW in Huston's "A Walk with Love and Death")

Among many,many others…

"Rommel . . . you magnificent bastard . . . I'VE READ YOUR BOOK!"

George C. Scott in "Patton", although you probably already knew that.

"To a new Yorker like you a hero is some kind of weird sanwich ,,,no somebody who takes on three tigers "…Odd Ball kely's heroes .
" one of the gentlemen from the south was inquirig about the dining arrangements…they are discussing the details now." Major reisman --dirty Doxen .

"Broadsword calling Danny Boy, Broadsword calling Danny Boy, over"
(Richard Burton of course in Where Eagles Dare)

"Get off the beach! Move inland! Get off the beach! Move inland! The sooner we get off this beach, the sooner they'll stop this blasted shelling. It's very bad for the dog."
(Cdr Colin Maude RN – Kenneth More – in The Longest Day)

"This is a story you will tell your grandchildren; and mightily bored they'll be."
- Lt Gen Horrocks (Edward Fox) A Bridge Too Far

Major General Urquhart: "Hancock. I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scuppered now that the jeeps haven't arrived. My communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?"
Corporal Hancock: "Couldn't hurt, sir."
A Bridge Too Far

"Always with the negative waves, Moriarty, always with the negative waves." – Oddball (Donald Sutherland) to Moriarty (Gavin MacLeod)

"To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers." – Oddball to Crapgame (Don Rickles)

"They even got the damn grave-diggers with them!" – Major General Colt (Carroll O'Connor)

"Sergeant, this bank's not gonna fall into the hands of the American army. It's gonna fall in our hands. You see, we're just a private enterprise operation." – Kelly (Clint Eastwood) to the German tank commander (Karl Otto-Alberty)

All from "Kelly's Heroes" (1970).

All great quotes

In addition to which

Quintus, watching the poorly armed Germanic horde shamble out of the forest: "People should know when they've been conquered" (Gladiator)

"A hero is some kind of sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers with a Sherman." Or words to that effect. Oddball in Kelly's Heroes. D'oh! jpattern and Ming beat me to it!

"Let's make a deal with them." "What kind of deal?" "A deal deal. Maybe they're Republicans." Also from Kelly's Heroes. Dang! idontbelieveit got this one before me too!

"Of course they will fail. But what if they don't?" One of the German officers in A Bridge Too Far

"Somebody promote that man. He's the only one around here who knows what the hell he's doing."

"I know not what effect thay have on the enemy, but by God they frighten me!"

"No I'm Spartacus!" Tony Curtis followed by a whole bunch of others.

"Charlie don't surf!" Robert Duval in Apocalypse Now.

Some of my favorites are from Gettysburg:

"To be a good soldier, you must love the army. But to be a good commander you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love…"

"What I'm fighting for is to prove I'm a better man than the others."

"There's an old Indian saying: 'Follow the cigar smoke, find the fat man there.'"

Also, Last of the Mohicans:

"But always in his heart he is Huron!" (I use this one a lot when playing F&I and commanding Indians).

"The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here."

"Magua said… I understand English, very well."

"I fought for three reasons… I can't remember what they were.
The first one gets you in, and the reason when you're in is staying alive.
I won't know the reason they find afterwards, but it will be a very good one, for why it was fought.
I'm sure I'll be glad."

Private Gripweed (John Lennon) "How I Won the War".

FNG, looking at a VC human wave attack: "**** me!"

Leathery combat vet next to him: "They will if they git up here…"

"The Siege of Firebase Gloria"

Cross of Iron:

Colonel Brandt: What will we do when we have lost the war?
Captain Kiesel: Prepare for the next one.

Duck soup:
Rufus T. Firefly: Now that you're Secretary of War, what kind of an army do you think we ought to have?
Chicolini: Well, I tell you what I think, I think we should have a standing army.
Rufus T. Firefly: Why should we have a standing army?
Chicolini: Because then we save money on chairs.

We were soldiers:
Lt. Colonel Hal Moore: I think you oughta get yourself an M-16.
Sergeant Major Basil Plumley: Sir, if the time comes I need one, there'll be plenty lying on the ground.

Der Winter der ein Sommer war:
Hessian Jaeger Talking to a German speaking POW after a skirmish in the AWI.
Hessian Jaeger: Why have you not said that you are German? We would never have fired apon a fellow Hessian.
POW: But I am from Hannover!
Hessian Jaeger: But why have you fired apon us than???
POW: I am from Hannover in Pennsylvania!

Apocalypse Now, LC Kilgore:

What the hell do you know about surfing, Major? You're from ed New Jersey!

DM

We'll go through the germans like crap through a goose! -- George C Scott as Patton in Patton of course.

Ha, Rudi reminded me –

Hal Moore says something to the effect of knowing how Custer felt and Sgt Maj says, "Custer was a pussy."

"Has Wellington nothing better to offer me than these Amazons" Waterloo, Rod Steiger as Napoleon

"If there is anything in this world about which I know positively nothing, it is agriculture. "

Waterloo.

"Till the Apache is taken or destroyed" – Major Dundee

"A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas! (Show them no mercy! For you shall receive none!)" – Aragorn @ The Two Towers

"War is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought." – General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden)@ Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Zulus, Sir, thousands of them.

-Zulu

Sgt. Mulcahy: "How many here do *not* know right from left?"
(Several hands are raised)
"Jesus take pity…(smacks recruit's front)
THIS is your front! (smacks recruits back)
THIS is your rear! (stomps on one foot)
THIS is your right! (recruit moves foot before he can stomp)
Now yer learnin', boyo!"

-Glory

Gen. Broulard: "There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."

-Paths Of Glory

Alvin York: "What we done in France, we had to do. And some as done it, didn't come back, and that kind of thing ain't for buying and selling."

-Sgt. York

"You heard my offer. Water for guns."

-Sgt. Joe Gunn (Bogie! )

'Aaaaarrrggghhh!'

Countless war movies.

"If they fire one, we'll fire one."

"FIRE ONE!!"-Bedford Incident

"How long was the Hundred Years War?"-Castle
Keep

"What's the matter with you!!! Wellington is finished! You were with me at Marengo! I lost the battle at five o'clock BUT I WON IT BACK AGAIN AT SEVEN!!!!"-Napoleon, Rod Steiger, Waterloo

"I'll kill them all, I'll be right back"-Tuco, Eli Wallach, The Good, The Bad And The Ugly(counts as ACW?)

"Why don't they surrender?"-German Colonel

"What you got there Colonel is a bunch of Dagos, Micks, Polaks and Wops from New York City. They don't know the meaning of surrender."-American Lieutenant.-Lost Battalion

"Get the underwear off your head. Enough is enough." Telly Savalas in Kelly's Heroes. (Just what my dad would have said)

"Well I don't think it's fair to condemn a whole program based one little glich." Gerge C. Scott, Dr. Unwichtigsleiber

"What about you George?" "I can attack with three divisions in 48 hours." G.C.Scott, Patton (Always chokes me up)

"Sing it Heine!" Kurt Jurgens, Enemy Bellow

"Home! The English are too many!" Braveheart

"Now let's go surprise Harry Heth." Gettysburg

How to fix comm electronics "Spit in the back and whup it." Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants

"Take pictures! Take pictures!" The Americanization of Emily.

Grelber

Col. Martin Hessler: The Russian Front does not put meat on a man's bones.
Battle of the Bulge 1965 Robert Shaw

A Bridge Too Far, Tommy to a German wearing a white flag informing the British his officer wants to discuss the surrender: "Sorry we're much too busy to take your surrender and we really don't have room for all of you anyway." or something to that effect.

'Sing! Louder!' Robert Shaw, Battle of the Bulge.

Mick

Sailor "Hey Chief where's my battle station"

Chief "I don't know where your battle station is, look around"

Mister Roberts

"Better him than me" .. Animal-Mother.. Full Metal Jacket