"Jumping out a window five hundred feet aboveground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck."
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated."
— Elizabeth Cruickshank

"'That's a nice song,' said young Sam, and Vimes remembered that he was hearing it for the first time.
'It's an old soldiers' song,' he said.
'Really, sarge? But it's about angels.'
Yes, thought Vimes, and it's amazing what bits those angels cause to rise up as the song progresses. It's a real soldiers' song: sentimental, with dirty bits.
'As I recall, they used to sing it after battles,’ he said. I've seen old men cry when they sing it,’ he added.
'Why? It sounds cheerful.'
They were remembering who they were not singing it with, thought Vimes. You'll learn. I know you will. "
— Terry Pratchett (Night Watch)

"The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden."
— Roger Zelazny (Lord of Light)

""This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia." "
— C.S. Lewis

"Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead,
the Worm of Dread,
And ever so his foes shall fall.

The sword is sharp, the spear is long,
The arrow swift, the Gate is strong;
The heart is bold that looks on gold;
The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,
While hammers fells like ringing bells
In places deep, where dark things sleep,
In hollow halls beneath the fells.

-from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)"
— J.R.R. Tolkien

"Eulaliiiaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
— Brian Jacques

"The Harder the Battle; The Greater the Blessing"
— Denise DiFalco

"Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty."
— Koushun Takami Battle Royale

"Force is not strength. You may win a fight or a war with force, but you will not win friendship. Most do not realize that friendship is important, but if you were to go into a battle against 100 men, would you rather fight alone with all of your're force, or with the good feeling of your friends helping. "
— Creston Fournerat

"Today a great shot for freedom was heard. I think it stands a chance of being heard forever. It marls a turning point in the history of the Jewish people. The beginning of the return to a statues of dignity we have not known for two thousand years. Yes, today was the first step back. My battle is done. Now I turn the command over to the soldiers. "
— Leon Uris

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Eph. 6:12 (NIV)"
— Various

"If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Dart)

"Na sir ‘s na seachainn an cath. Neither seek nor shun the fight."
— Rae L (A Kiss of Ashen Twilight)

"Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland"
— Jacqueline Carey (Kushiel's Chosen)

"All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles."
— Teresa of Ávila

"Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and he stood up, swaying, more frightened than he had been that day, more frightened, perhaps, than he had been in his whole life..."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)

"Yonder are the Hessians. They were bought for seven pounds and tenpence a man. Are you worth more? Prove it. Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow!"
— John Stark

"How I love thee..."
— Cecilia Dart-Thorntonilia Dart-Thornton

"Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?"
Bryce: "No."
Huxley: "Seabags Brown does."
Bryce: "I don't see what that has to do..."
Huxley: "What do you know about Gaelic history?"
Bryce: "Not much."
Huxley: "Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too."
Bryce: "I don't..."
Huxley: " What do you know about astronomy?"
Bryce: "A little."
Huxley: "Discuss it with Wellman, he held a fellowship."
Bryce: "This is most puzzling."
Huxley: "What about Homer, ever read Homer?"
Bryce: "Of course I've read Homer."
Huxley: "In the original Greek?"
Bryce: "No"
Huxley: "Then chat with Pfc. Hodgkiss. Loves to read the ancient Greek."
Bryce: "Would you kindly get to the point?"
Huxley: "The point is this, Bryce. What makes you think you are so goddam superior? Who gave you the bright idea that you had a corner on the world's knowledge? There are privates in this battalion who can piss more brains down a slit trench then you'll ever have. You're the most pretentious, egotistical individual I've ever encountered. Your superiority complex reeks. I've seen the way you treat men, like a big strutting peacock. Why, you've had them do everything but wipe your ass.""
— Leon Uris

"War in the abstract is a confusing thing. War on the ground, in the middle of a battle, is not. When someone shoots at you, they are your enemy, and you shoot back. When someone tries to kill you, they are your enemy, and you try to kill them first. War is complicated, battle is not (310)."
— Laurell K. Hamilton (Swallowing Darkness (Meredith Gentry, #7))

"An agile, well-trained, brave elephant, ridden by a good mahout, its trunk armed with the kind of sabre known as a qartal and covered with chain mail, while the rest of its body is protected by sheets of bark and iron, surrounded by 500 men to defend it and protect it to the rear, can fight against 6000 men on horseback."
— Al Masudi

"a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor."
— James A. Michener (Poland)

"Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved."
— Martin Luther

"You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard where a standard never flew."
— Stephen Crane

"Nice jewelry and a boy's corpse. Oh your so pretty"
— Battle Royale

""The battlefield is where the warrior is tested""
— Alexander H. Ginn (The Esoteric Verses of the Alpha Dominant Warrior)