We all have watched many war movies, no doubt these movies are meant for entertainment purposes but on the other hand they show us the truth and realities of war, the way our real life heroes face it and commit a selfless and heroic act in order to protect our nation. And the dialogues play a major role in such movies, people often get impressed not only by actions but also by how the heroes sound just before or after their actions and that exerts more influence over people.
Here, we brought to you some of most memorable lines from the classic films of War Movie History ever:
- Brig. Gen. Norman Cota, ‘The Longest Day’: “Only two kinds of people are gonna stay on this beach: those that are already dead and those that are gonna die. Now get off your butts. You guys are the Fighting 29th.”
- Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, ‘Apocalypse Now’: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like…victory. Someday this war’s gonna end…”
- Maverick, ‘TopGun’: “I could tell you, but then I’d have to kill you”
- Capt. John Miller, ‘Saving Private Ryan’: “I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel.”
- Gen George Patton, ‘Patton’: “Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.”
- Hoot, ‘Black Hawk Down’: “When I get home people will ask me, “Hey Hoot, why do you do it man? Why? You some war junkie?” You know what I’ll say? I won’t say a god damn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you, and that’s it. That’s all it is.”
- Capt. Benjamin Willard, ‘Apocalypse Now’: “In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action – what is often called ruthless – what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it”
- Admiral Yamamoto, ‘Pearl Harbor’: “A brilliant man will find a way not to fight a war.”
- Odysseus, ‘Troy’: “War is young men dying and old men talking.”
- ‘Black Hawk Down’, Screen Title: “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
- Joseph Galloway, ‘We Were Soldiers’: “We, who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams.”
- Hector, ‘Troy’: “All my life I’ve lived by a code; and the code is simple: Honor the gods, love your woman, and defend your country. Troy is mother to us all. Fight for her!”
- James Bradley, ‘Flags of Our Fathers’: “Heroes are something we create, something we need. It’s a way for us to understand what is almost incomprehensible how people could sacrifice so much for us, but for my dad and these men the risks they took, the wounds they suffered, they did that for their buddies, they may have fought for their country but they died for their friends.”
- Sunil Shetty, ‘Border’: “Hum toh Kisi doosre ki dharti par nazar bhi nahi dalte … lekin itne nalayak bachche bhi nahi hai … ki koi hamari dharti maa par nazar daale aur hum chup chap dekhte rahe.”
- Jackie Shroff, ‘Border’: “The more you sweat in peace … the less you bleed in war”
- Sunny Deol, ‘Border’: “pehli goli woh chalayega… Aur aakhri goli hum”
- Sunny Deol, ‘Border’: “woh kehte hai subah ka khana jaiselmer mein karange dopahar ka khana Jodhpur mein karenge or raat ka khana Delhi mein karenge lekin aaj hum unka naashta karenge, guru maharaj ne kaha hai ek khalsa sawa lakh ke barabar hota hai aaj unki baat sach kar dikhane ka waqt aa gaya hai.”
- Kay Kay Menon, ‘Shaurya’: “Border pe marne se zyada bada nasha koi nahin hai”
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