5 Rudyard Kipling Quotes on Soldiers

Rudyard Kipling quotes on soldiers

23. We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

24. For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's 'Saviour of 'is country' when the guns begin to shoot.

32. When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, Go, go, go like a soldier, So-oldier of the Queen!

105. 'E's a sort of a bloomin' cosmopolouse - soldier an' sailor too.

114. Boots - boots - boots - boots - movin' up and down again! There's no discharge in the war!