Fritz Kreisler Quotes

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

History has been the history of warfare.

The last time I saw you Gooks was when you were shooting at me.

It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them.

I like war.

War is the science of destruction.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

War is the trade of Kings.

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

'The Red' delivers intense action, leavened by a genuinely sympathetic portrait of soldiers caught up in battles they never chose.

Suddenly a single shot on the extreme left rang out on the clear morning air, followed quickly by several others, and the whole line pushed rapidly forward through the brush.

When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.

Wars ruin armies.

I do not fear war, it is my trade.

I shall hurl the first spear at the foe. If any man can stand at rest while Attila fights, he is a dead man.

We are conditioned to regard warfare as something exciting and even glamorous.

You may not like to go to war, but war will come to you.

When I'm fighting it's just search and destroy.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

War is delightful for those who don't know it