Quotes by James Jones

“He could not blame the Army, Angelo could blame the Army; Angelo hated the Army. But he didnt hate the Army, not even now. He remembered what Maureen had told him once that it was the system that w...”

“It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.”

“Some day...as you grow older, you will find imagination sometimes produces a truth that is greater than any fact.”

“Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.”

“Did you ever hear the one about how every living woman dies three times? Once when she is seduced of her virginity, once when she is seduced of her freedom (I believe they call it marriage), and on...”

“...homosexuality is the direct result of chastity in women.”

“...the quickest, efficient, least expensive way to educate a man is to make it painful for him when he is wrong, the same as with any other animal.”

“Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the bivouac, carrying two drunks, who both fatuously imagined, that once in a dream somewhere, somet...”

“But he had always believed in fighting for the underdog, against the top dog. He had learned it, not from The Home, or The School, or The Church, but from that fourth and other great moulder of soc...”

“He had not the makings of that honest man to whom success comes naturally.”

“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it.""But it'd be there.”

“This place is hell. They herd you around like cattle; they order you around like dogs; they work you like horses; and they feed you like hogs.”

“I write to reach eternity.”

“It will say just about everything I have ever had to say, or will ever have to say, on the human condition of war and what it means to us, as against what we claim it means to us.”

“I want to make everybody in the world groan with the inevitability of sorrow.”

“Colour makes a difference. Gender makes a difference. Ethnicity makes a difference. Acting as if they don't will create more problems than it will solve.”

“When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still...”

“Somewhere along the line, he thought, these things have become your heritage. You are multiplied by each sound that you hear. And you cannot deny them, without denying with them the purpose of your...”

“Unofficially, nobody really minded the clap. It was a joke to those who had never had it and to those who had been over it for a while. No worse than a bad cold, they said. Apparently the only time...”

“A deathbed promise is the most sacred one there is, she hawked at him from the lungs that were almost, but not quite, filled up yet, and I want you to make me this promise on my deathbed: Promise m...”