Best war TV quotes of all time

Please vote as you browse around to help the best rise to the top.

Movie Quote Quiz
M*A*S*H picture

Sometimes You Hear the Bullet - S1-E17

Henry Blake: All I know is what they taught me at command school. There are certain rules about a war, and rule number one is that young men die. And rule number two is that doctors can't change rule number one.

More M*A*S*H quotes
Bonanza picture

Ben Cartwright: You and your education.
Adam Cartwright: Education is progress! Now what have you got against it?
Ben Cartwright: I don't have anything against education - as long as it doesn't interfere with your thinking.

More Bonanza quotes
F Troop picture

Corporal Randolph Agarn: How do you get to Fort Courage? That's easy. You take a right at the rock that looks like a bear, then a left at the bear that looks like a rock.

More F Troop quotes
More Hogan's Heroes quotes
The Blue and the Gray picture

Abraham Lincoln: It's well known that the more a man speaks, the less he's understood.

More The Blue and the Gray quotes
Transformers picture

Megatron: Is there anyone brave - or stupid enough - to oppose us? This city is under martial law... and I am the marshal.

More Transformers quotes
Black Sheep Squadron picture

Major Greg 'Pappy' Boyington: The only way we're gonna win this war is if Tokyo is more fouled up than Washington.

More Black Sheep Squadron quotes
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. picture

Alice Whipple: Harry, how long are we going to be here?
Harry Whipple: As long as it takes.
Alice Whipple: Well, I've got to get to the beauty parlor.
Harry Whipple: You're telling me.

More Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. quotes
McHale's Navy picture

Capt. Binghamton: Commander, how would you and your men like two weeks with nothing to do but play gin rummy, go surfing, have luaus with steel drum bands, dancing girls, hmm?
Lieut. Comdr. Quinton McHale: Two whole weeks? Woo hooo, oh that'd be a wonderful change sir. Yes sir.
Capt. Binghamton: Knock it off McHale. That's what you do every week.

More McHale's Navy quotes
Band of Brothers picture

Guarnere: Jesus Christ, we gotta do all this with a C.O. who has his head so far up his fuckin' ass, that lump in his throat is his goddamn nose.

More Band of Brothers quotes
More Rome quotes
Generation Kill picture

Gunnery Sgt. Mike 'Gunny' Wynn: We need to make sure the stupidity in this company doesn't roll down too hard on our guys.

More Generation Kill quotes
Dad's Army picture

Turkey Dinner - S7-E6

Vicar: Captain Mainwaring, this whole affair is not well organised at all, they all started eating as soon as their plates arrived.
Mainwaring: Of course, otherwise it would go cold.
Vicar: But it's not right, Before I even said for what we are about to receive half of them had already received it.

eric 64

More Dad's Army quotes
Julius Caesar picture

Caesar: Are you trying to seduce me?
Cleopatra: I don't try! I seduce... or I don't.

More Julius Caesar quotes
Jewel in the Crown picture

Capt. Ronald Merrick: Are you one of those people who think that if you teach an Indian the rules of cricket he'll become an English gentleman?
Guy Perron: Hardly sir. I know quite a few English gentlemen who play cricket brilliantly but are absolute shits.

More Jewel in the Crown quotes
'Allo 'Allo! picture

Herr Flick: I will not be reporting this incident to Berlin. I do not wish to look a right 'nana.

More 'Allo 'Allo! quotes
Attila picture

Flavius Aetius: Let's make a bargain here and now, a treaty of peace between your people and mine.
Attila the Hun: I think that's the first sign of weakness I've seen you show.

More Attila quotes
Batman picture

Narrator: This was part of a foreign land, transplanted bodily to America and known as Little Tokyo. Since a wise government rounded up the immoral hoods, it has become virtually a ghost street, where only one business survives, eking out a precarious existence on the dimes of curiosity-seekers.

More Batman quotes
The Tudors picture

Queen Katherine: He will tire of you, like all the others.
Anne Boleyn: And what if he does not?

More The Tudors quotes
Over There picture

Vanessa Dunphy: You're an asshole Mr. Howard. Five minutes from now I won't be yelling but you'll still be an asshole.

More Over There quotes

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.