Gertrude Stein Quotes

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

I don't like drama in my life, but I like reading about it.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. ... To move swiftly, strike vigorously, and secure all the fruits of victory is the secret of successful war.

War is delightful for those who don't know it

War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it. Dulce bellum inexpertis.

I have much to teach you. Come and learn the art of war from the one who invented it. (Takeshi)

In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

War means fighting. The business of the soldier is to fight. Armies are not called out to dig trenches, to throw up breastworks, to live in camps, but to find the enemy and strike him; to invade his country, and do him all possible damage in the shortest possible time. This will involve great destruction of life and property while it lasts; but such a war will of necessity be of brief continuance, and so would be an economy of life and property in the end.

I don't think I wrote stories down when I was young, but I certainly made them up, perhaps sometimes losing track of the border between reality and make-believe.

War is the science of destruction.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

War is the trade of Kings.

In strife who inquires whether stratagem or courage was used?

A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.

I know of nothing more exciting than war.

War is cinema, and cinema is war

A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought… but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.

Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war.