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Officers Quotes

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horatio Nelson (1846). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.214

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.174, 谷月社

Live for something rather than die for nothing. —George Patton

Cindy Gerard (2008). “Whisper No Lies”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

It's not lying when you do it to officers!

Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs (2004). “Monstrous Regiment”, Methuen Drama

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1765, Delphi Classics

War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

The Christian in me says it's wrong, but the corrections officer in me says, 'I love to make a grown man piss himself.'

"Punishment and Amusement" by Scott Higham and Joe Stephens, www.washingtonpost.com. May 22, 2004.

I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.

Robert Burns (1854). “The Life and Works of Robert Burns”, p.200

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

"Live Blog: Murdochs, Brooks, police testify in phone-hacking scandal". news.blogs.cnn.com. July 19, 2011.