“This is war, Peacock. Casualties are inevitable. You can not make an omelette without breaking an egg. Every cook will tell you that.”
- “Colonel Mustard” from “Clue”
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and without glory is to die every day."
- "Napoleon Bonaparte" from "Hornblower During a Crisis" by C.S. Forester
“If variety was the spice of life, thought Hornblower, his present existence must be an Oriental curry."
- “Horatio Hornblower” from “Hornblower and the ‘Atropos’”, by C.S. Forester, Ch. 14
“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill what he stands for, not unless you break his spirit. That’s a beautiful thing to see.”
- “Cancer Man” from “The X Files” in “The Beginning”
“I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant”
- “Lord Edrington” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “The Wrong War”
“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
- “Captain Sawyer” from “Horatio Hornblower” in “Mutiny” (taken from “King Henry” from “King Henry IV Part 2”, by William Shakespeare, Act III, scene i)
"A hit, a palpable hit."
- “Archie Kennedy” from “Horatio Hornblower” in "Retribution" (taken from “Osric” from “Hamlet”, by William Shakespeare, Act V, scene ii)