Brian Horrocks quotes

Brian Horrocks quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world”
-- Brian Horrocks

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“When there's a status quo, usually what shakes everybody up is some sort of military confrontation, at which point we all come running and screaming to pick up the pieces.”
“Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung”
“With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.”
“I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.”
“I never thought of myself as being a good songwriter. There are a ton of other people that are good songwriters, but I don't think I'm in the club. What I do well is perform, sometimes sing pretty good, and accompany myself well and arrange fairly well.”
“The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.”
“I don't really like to go out to clubs or anything. It's just not my style. I'd much rather go to a dive bar or a local place.”
“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”

Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”

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