War Horse Quotes

“I can hate you more, but I'll never love you less.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“cause when there's life there's still hope”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“They fight a war and they don't know what for. Isn't that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different color uniform and speaks a different language?”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“He laughed to himself he said because if he did not laugh he would cry.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“But just as soon as this war's over and finished with,I'll get back home and marry her.I've grown up with her, Joey, known her all my life. S'pose I know her almost as well as I know myself, and I like her a lot better.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“But try as I might, I never got to eat any of her pastries, and do you know, she never even offered me one.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“My Albert married his Maisie Brown as he said he would. But I think she never took to me, nor I to her for that matter. Perhaps it was a feeling of mutual jealousy.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Blind terror drove me on, with my flying stirrups whipping me into a frenzy. With no rider to carry I reached the kneeling riflemen first and they scattered as I came upon them.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Why does this war have to destroy anything and everything that’s fine and beautiful?”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“As he did so, he held out his other hand in a gesture of friendship and reconciliation, a smile lighting he worn face. 'In an hour, maybe, or two,' he said, 'we will be trying our best again each other to kill. God only knows why we do it, and I think he has maybe forgotten why. Goodbye Welshman. We have shown them, haven't we? We have shown them that any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other. That is all it needs, no?”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“...and then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Any horse has an instinctive fondness for children, for they speak more softly, and their size precludes any threat;”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“How can you say that?’ said Rudi. ‘Just look at him, Karl. Can you not see that he’s something special? This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“he’s a fine, fine horse,”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Headquarters phoned through about the horses, Herr Hauptmann,’ said the man in white. ‘And they say I am to keep them for the stretcher cases. I know your views on the matter Hauptmann, but I’m afraid you cannot have them. We need them here desperately, and the way things are going I fear we will need more. That was just the first attack – there will be more to come. We expect a sustained offensive – it will be a long battle. We are the same on both sides, once we start something we seem to have to prove a point and that takes time and lives. We’ll need all the ambulance transport we can get, motorised or horse.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“They fight a war and they do not know what it is for. Isn't that crazy. How can one man kill another and not know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language?”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse

“Well farmer,’ said the officer, nodding his appreciation as he looked me over.”
― Michael Morpurgo, War Horse