Key quotes from From Here to Eternity
Courage Quotes
PREWITT: Look, I told Holmes and I'm telling you... I ain't fighting. I quit fighting! You guys want to put the screws on, go right ahead. I can take anything you can dish out.
Duty Quotes
WARDEN: He'd strangle in his own spit if he didn't have me around to swab out his throat for him.
Love Quotes
WARDEN: You think I'd be here if I thought it was a mistake? Taking a chance on twenty years in Leavenworth for making dates with the company commander's wife? And her acting like—like Lady Astor...
Marriage Quotes
HOLMES: How long will it be, I wonder, before I'm allowed to live that down? How many times must I say it was an accident?KAREN: Please, Dana. HOLMES: I'm going to bed. KAREN: Please get out of my...
Society and Class Quotes
PREWITT: I'm a thirty-year man, in for the whole ride.LORENE: I suppose it's different when a fellow makes a career out of it. PREWITT: Nothing wrong with a soldier that isn't wrong with everyone e...
Warfare Quotes
HOLMES: You might as well say stop war because one man got killed.