Army
1. “The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with the courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.” (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)
2. “There’s lots of bad men in the army, Henry.” (Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage)
3. “Veteran regiments in the army were likely to be very small congregations of men.” (Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage)
4. “Haven’t you noticed that the places mentioned in military communiqués are scarcely ever to be found on the maps? The geographers never heard of them, either.” (John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes)
5. “We’re paratroopers, lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded.” (Band of Brothers – motion picture)
Arrogance
6. “Man’s arrogance is boastful, woman’s is something in the fibre.” (John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos)
Art
7. “When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
8. “You paint with your whole being. First you learn that. The rest is luck.” (John Fowles, The Collector)
9. “… everybody knows that the arts are selfish.” (Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose)
10. “Call me a Philistine, if you like, but Art really only became Art in the last two centuries. Essentially, before that, it was furniture for improving one’s home.” (John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes)
