Quotes About Foreign Legion

The macabre who lived through the war have a story they loved to tell about the soldiers of the Foreign Legion giving a ball in the expanses around Verdun and dancing with the corpses. Alabama's continued brewing of the poisoned filter for a semiconscious banquet table, her insistence on the magic and glamor of life when she was already feeling its pulse like the throbbing of an amputated leg, had something of the same sinister quality.

Absurdly enough, not even Central Europeans who had served in the Foreign Legion had been exempted from internment.

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

The men of the Foreign Legion bring their own worlds with them from their own places; their only common ground is intoxication.

A cross between a foreign legion boot-camp and a secret-society initiation ritual, the ordeals were grounded in pain. One thing was obvious: the agenda, which was dedicated to grave discomfort, had been drawn up by a passionate sadist.

Franco has a few Spaniards, but mostly it's the Foreign Legion and the Moors who are being used to crush the Spanish people.

A estas alturas los tres mercenarios de la Legión Extranjera ya me tienen agarrado de las verijas. —¿Cuáles mercenarios? —pregunta la Hermana. —El alemán Alzheimer, el inglés míster Parkinson y el italiano Franco. —¿Qué Franco? —se sorprende el Tira.