Quotes About Warfare

and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the causeway

Would you lesson me in warfare? I was fighting battles when you were sucking mother's milk. And losing battles too.

I'll have no songs about how brave you died, Kingmaker. There's tens o'thousands dead on your account.

A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.

Men can always fight, Your Grace. Ask rather if we can win. Dying is easy, but victory comes hard.

Good armor and a good horse means a good ransom if I unseat him.

This time the Imp meant to fight, and a city that fought could expect no mercy at all.

For men the answer was always the same, and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

A small spoon of victory is just the thing to settle the stomach before battle, " Ser Imry had declared happily.

Well, the drums gave me headaches, the sunlight flashing on my armor cooked me up like harvest day, and those magnificent destriers shit everywhere.

It is one thing to train in the yard with a blunted sword in hand, and another to drive a foot of sharpened steel into a man's gut and see light go out of his eyes.

My Throne is made from the swords of my enemies.

In battle, discipline beats numbers nine times of every ten.

A small victory, Catelyn thought when the fighting had ended and the surviving foemen had melted back into the night, yet a victory nonetheless.

Jon relished the stories they were telling, tales of battle and bedding and the hunt. He

Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure. "What is a knight without a horse?" men riddled. "A snowman with a sword.

A siege is a deadly dull.

his army to plunder, and sold the entire population for slaves.

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.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.