10,941 Quotes About War

The War-god has no favourites: he has been known to kill the man who thought he was going to do the killing

Xanthus, you waste your breath by prophesying my destruction. I know well enough that I am doomed to perish here...Nevertheless, I am not going to stop until I have given the Trojans their bellyful of war.

It is the height of folly to be wise too late.

The young fool might have known his prayers were doomed to fail. Achilles was not kind or tender-hearted, but a man of fierce passions

The last day has come for our Dardan land. This is the hour which no effort of ours can alter. We Trojans are no more: no more is Ilium;no more the splendour of Teucrian glory. All now belongs to Argos; it is Jupiter's remorseless will.

War has certainly lost much of its romance since going into winter quarters went out of fashion.

When war comes, some flee with great alarm while others step forth and quietly seek directions to the battle.

Syria has long been on the ‘axis of evil’ list and a pretext to intervene militarily in that country, without causing public outrage like that caused in Iraq and Afghanistan, had to be manufactured. If a reason for military action in Syria didn’t exist, it had to be invented.

Every day of the war, about 7,000 men along that front were killed or wounded.