Quotes About Bernard Montgomery

#1. 'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Ben Macintyre

#2. If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#3. He's changed. I don't know what caused it ... but what the heck? He's laughin' anyway, like a regular kid.

Sakura Tsukuba

#4. Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#5. Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.

John O'Donohue

#6. In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

John Barth

#7. We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

John Lennon

#8. A Marine should be sworn to the patient endurance of hardships, like the ancient knights; and it is not the least of these necessary hardships to have to serve with sailors.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#9. Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow' ... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#10. I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#11. As God once said, and I think rightly ...

Bernard Law Montgomery

#12. Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that.

Ice-T

#13. To us is given the honor of striking a blow for freedom which will live in history and in the better days that lie ahead men will speak with pride of our doings.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#14. Im my profession you have to mystify the enemy.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#15. There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#16. Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#17. Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#18. The harder the fighting and the longer the war, the more the infantry, and in fact all the arms, lean on the gunners.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#19. Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.

Larry Hagman

#20. Eisenhower? Nice chap, no soldier

Bernard Montgomery

#21. In one short sentence, it is captaincy that counts

Bernard Montgomery

#22. Let no man surrender so long as he is unwounded and can fight.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#23. Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#24. The signs that the world is spinning out of kilter are increasingly difficult to misinterpret. The question is how to convince enough people to join a critical mass of urgent opinion, in the U.S. and the rest of the world.

Al Gore

#25. My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

Bernard Law Montgomery

#26. The commander must decide how he will fight the battle before it begins. He must then decide who he will use the military effort at his disposal to force the battle to swing the way he wishes it to go; he must make the enemy dance to his tune from the beginning and not vice versa.

Bernard Law Montgomery