Quotes About Combat

It's going to come to fists eventually.

His belly was flabby, and it got softer every time I hit it. I hit it often.

I forgot that's what gets you all hot and bothered, Jace, girls killing things." "I like anyone killing things, especially me." he said with a smile.

When a man hath no freedom to fight for at home, Let him combat for that of his neighbours; Let him think of the glories of Greece and of Rome, And get knocked on the head for his labours. To do good to Mankind is the chivalrous plan, And is always as nobly requited; Then battle fro Freedom wherever you can, And, if not shot or hanged, you'll get knighted.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country

Never wound a foe when you can kill him

There's a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

Those are brave men," he told Ser Balon in admiration. "Let's go kill them.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

First rule, stick them with the pointy end!

Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first. She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength.

This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.

Thrones are won with swords, not quills. Spill blood, not ink.

They hate you because you act like you're better than they are...." "[they are] Four that you humiliated in the yard. Four who are probably afraid of you. I've watched you fight. It's not training with you. Put a good edge on your sword, and they'd be dead meat; you know it, I know it, they know it. You leave them nothing. You shame them. Does that make you proud?

A man is never so vulnerable in a battle as when he flees," Lord Eddard has told Jon once. "A running man is like a wounded animal to a soldier. It gets his bloodlust up.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

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

My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

There is always someone quicker and stronger, Ser Rodrik had once told Jon and Robb. He's the man you want to face in the yard before you need to face his like upon a battlefield.

First lesson," Jon said. "Stick them with the pointy end.