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One of the best war movies of all time was on TCM tonight.
George C. Scott was NAILS as one of the USA's most brilliant, if eccentric,
military commanders.

OK, here are two of my faves:

After a key victory in North Africa:
"Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

Soldier in France: "Where are you going, General?"
"Berlin! I'm gonna personally shoot that paperhanging sonofabitch!"

:twisted:

"you're nothing but a coward!"

"...All Glory is Fleeting."

the best is when George C. Scott is talking about getting shot in the nose to whom ?

Karl Malden, the guy with the biggest nose on planet earth.

"Blow me Bitch!!!"





Oh shit, wrong movie.

mvscal wrote:

Funkywhiteboy wrote:After a key victory in North Africa:
"Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!"

Unfortunately, Patton and Rommel never fought against each other.

Let's blame that one on co-screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola.
In the context of the scene, it's still a great line, IMO.

this is a barracks not a bordello

well get back down there, your the only sumbitch who knows what he's doin

i won't subsudize cowardice

its bad enough i have to wetnurse montgomery i won't stand for that

How about an actual quote?


"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."

Racer X wrote:How about an actual quote?


"A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week."

the above were actual quotes mensa

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.


Thirty years from now, when you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks you, "What did you do in the great World War II," you won't have to say, "Well... I shoveled shit in Louisiana."


They're ivory. Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.