13 Quotes by Robert Leckie

It is glorious to drink the wine of the enemy.

Smell, the sense which somehow seems a joke, is the one most susceptible to outrage. It will give you no rest. One can close one’s eyes to ugliness or shield the ears from sound; but from a powerful smell there is no recourse but flight.

We advanced on the enemy with all the stealth of a circus.

Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.