10 Movie Quotes about World War 1 (+ Sound Clips)

Memorable quotes about world war 1, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I'll say this for the old man. He's got guts. -Into the valley of death Rode the 600. -How's that, sir? -That kind of guts. Also the kind they had in 1914 when your officers went over the top with nothing but a swagger stick.

William Holden as Commander Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai

2 In the First World War and for the first time in the history of man, nations combined to fight against nations, using the crude weapons of those days.

Gene Barry as Dr. Clayton Forrester in The War of the Worlds (1953)

3 We mustn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

Claude Rains in Casablanca (1942)

4 Do my share for my country. Live up to what Grandpa did in the first war, and Dad did in the second.

Charlie Sheen as Private Chris Taylor in Platoon

5 I went through the First World War and the Blitz in London. I was scared, but not like this.

John Wayne as Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)

6 What they should do now is pivot the way von Schlieffen planned it in the First World War.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

7 The crux being that, World War One from which you hide, was terminated in 1918.

Peter Sellers as Bloodnok in The Goon Show

8 What are you doing on top of that ladder, sir? World War One is over. -I know, I'm practising for the next one. -But how can you, they haven't written the music for it yet.

Peter Sellers as Bloodnok in The Goon Show

9 Oh, I say, look here! I remember a fashion out during the first world war for lasting peace.

Peter Sellers as Bloodnok in The Goon Show

10 Oh, now, let's see... Oh, yes, French are in it, too, and all them little countries, Austria, Hungary, Belgium - I forget who's with who, though.

Greer Garson as Rose in The African Queen (1952)

10 Movie Quotes about World War 1 (+ Sound Clips)

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