Henry V. O'Neil Quotes & Sayings

This is a Spartacan fighting knife. Heard of the Spartacan Scouts? Rough boys. This knife belonged to one of them. He died saving my life. — Henry V. O'Neil

That's it. Keep that edge. Fight like there's no tomorrow. — Henry V. O'Neil

I've had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. — Henry V. O'Neil

Never diagnosed the enemy before. — Henry V. O'Neil

Some of the things that beat the shit out of you ... can beat the bullshit out of you too. — Henry V. O'Neil

He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liquid all over his left thigh and wondered if he'd peed himself, it didn't matter, none of it mattered, the stars were out in the blackness overhead and that was where he was going. — Henry V. O'Neil

I'm in the infantry. What you just showed me, for us that's not even good pornography. — Henry V. O'Neil

It's a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose ... than when they do it by accident. — Henry V. O'Neil

Nobody ever kills everybody anywhere, big man. Somebody always gets away. — Henry V. O'Neil

Lieutenant Mortas is the black sheep of the family--I thought you knew that. — Henry V. O'Neil

No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days. — Henry V. O'Neil

Food's the killer. The clock starts as soon as the troops are on the ground. You wouldn't believe how fast they consume what they're carrying, and then ... if I don't get them more, if I don't find them more ... they die. — Henry V. O'Neil

Don't let 'em see they killed you! — Henry V. O'Neil

Therm-bombs! Drop 'em right on us! I been roasted before - it's nothing! — Henry V. O'Neil

You help us, they'll lock you up for the rest of your life. — Henry V. O'Neil

Remember what they did to Broadleaf, and remember what they did to us. Now it's time for us to kill 'em back. — Henry V. O'Neil

How long you been in the infantry, sir? Anything under ten miles counts as 'almost there'. — Henry V. O'Neil

Good units walk a thin line between indiscipline and ineffectiveness. Ignore the rules too often and you've got a mob, but enforce the rules too strictly and you've got a herd. — Henry V. O'Neil

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them. — Henry V. O'Neil

This is what I hate most about guys like you. You didn't even try. — Henry V. O'Neil

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it. — Henry V. O'Neil

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It's important to have a philosophy of life ... and of death. — Henry V. O'Neil

It's important to have a buddy like that. Somebody who'll stop you from doing that really stupid thing you were gonna do just because you couldn't think of anything better.
unidentified soldier, eulogizing his dead buddy — Henry V. O'Neil

Because Banshees don't think much of medals! — Henry V. O'Neil