The deadliest weapon in the world is a marine and his rifleýyour killer instinctýmust be harnessed if you expect to survive in combat. Your rifle is only a tool. It is a hard heart that kills.

"I just know that every man I kill, the farther away from home I feel." Captain John Miller

I've got lunatics laughing at me from the woods. My original plan has been scupperedýMy communications are completely broken down. Do you really believe any of that can be helped by a cup of tea?

I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridiusýloyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Air traffic controller: Tower to B-17, there's a Jap on your tail. Juice yer engines and get outta here!

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.

Capt. Jack Aubrey: Name a shrub after me - something prickly and hard to eradicate.

Colonel Saito: Do not speak to me of rules. This is war! This is not a game of cricket!

Col. John Marlowe: Kirby, you tangle with me, I'll have your hide. Sgt. Maj. Kirby: You're welcome to that too sir, if it's in the line of duty.

General Murray: I can't make out whether you're a bloody madman or just half-witted. T.E. Lawrence: I have the same problem, sir.