Quotes About British Soldiers

#1. I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Robert Fisk

#2. In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.

Paul Revere

#3. Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.

George MacDonald Fraser

#4. Blair ... is accusing us of executing British soldiers. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

#5. Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

#6. We've seen the reality of Saddam's regime: his thugs prepared to kill their own people, the parading of prisoners of war and now the release of those pictures of executed British soldiers.

Tony Blair

#7. No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence.

James Wolfe

#9. The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.

John Eisenhower

#10. that August an ominous and unprecedented British armada of 450 ships and boats carrying forty-five thousand British soldiers and sailors, as well as the rented Germanic troops known as the Hessians (of Headless Horseman fame), assembled in New York Harbor

Sarah Vowell

#11. The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Duke Of Wellington

#12. Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

Mark Thomas

#13. I'm addicted to working. I mean, I have a list of 100 countries I want to play in. I'm basically killing myself by travelling so much, for no reason whatsoever.

Elton John

#14. Kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and safire bracelet lasts forever

Anita Loos

#15. It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.

George Galloway

#16. To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.

Nina Dobrev

#17. Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!

Rudyard Kipling

#18. 'Rocket to Russia' is, I think, my favorite Ramones record. We reached our peak at that point.

Johnny Ramone

#19. I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy.

Gerald R. Ford

#20. The heart wants what the heart wants. Beyond common sense. Beyond higher reason.

Katy Regnery

#21. In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.

Erich Fromm

#22. No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C.S. Lewis

#23. I'm so sorry I wasn't here sooner, but you'll have to forgive an old vampire for being a bit rusty in the dreamscape.

Sara Humphreys

#24. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.

John Colville

#25. He smiles into the sun. He loves his wife more than life itself, why he even says, "I love you more than life itself," and does not understand this is the most frightening thing anyone can say.

Vanessa Place

#26. Every woman with a career has to make sacrifices when it comes to her children. It's no different with me, as a political activist, than with businesswomen, of which there are thankfully more and more in Russia. Or a female cabinet minister.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#27. From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

Mordechai Vanunu

#28. The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

John Graves Simcoe