Journey's End quotes

“He looks about forty-five-

physically as hard as nails” (osb)

“A dug out got blown up and came down in the men’s tea.

They were frightfully annoyed.” Hardy

“I hope we’re lucky and get

a youngster straight from school” Osb

“How is the dear young boy?

Drinking like a fish, as usual?” Hardy

“You such a quiet, sober

old thing” Hardy

“He turns into a kind of

freak show exhibit” Osb

“You know his father’s vicar

of a country village?” Hardy

“Young Stanhope goes on sticking it,

month in, month out” Osb

“What a dear, level-headed

old thing you are” Hardy

“You don’t know him as I do:

I love that fellow, I’d go to hell with him” Osb

“If you want to get the best pace out of an earwig,

dip it in whiskey- makes ‘em go like hell!” Hardy

“You see, I only left school

at the end of last summer term” Ral

“I was only a kid and he was

one of the big fellows; he’s three years older than I am” Ral

“Rugger and cricket seem

a long way from here” Osb

“He looked splendid!

It sort of - made me - feel -” “-keen?” Ral and Osb

“A hundred yards from here the Germans are

sitting in their dugouts, thinking how quiet it is” Osb

“There’s something rather

romantic about it all” Osb

“‘E said next time we ‘ad them

e’d wring my neck” Mason

“Despite his stars of rank

he is no more than a boy” (SH)

“TROTTER- is middle-aged

and homely looking”

“Oh. I see.

Rather a coincidence.” SH

“Give me apricots every time!

I ‘ate pineapple chunks; too bloomin’ sickly for me!” Trotter

“You’ll feel you’ve been ‘ere a year

in about an hour’s time” Trotter

“My wife reads the papers

every morning and writes and tells me.” Trotter

“I’m going to draw a hundred and forty-four

little circles on a bit o’ paper” Trotter

“You wear it sort of tucked up

under your chin like a serviette” Trotter

“Beastly

neuralgia” Hibbert

“Another little worm

trying to wriggle home” SH

“I wonder if he really is bad.

He looks rotten” Osb

“Small boys at school generally

have their heroes” Osb

“She thinks I’m a wonderful chap-

commanding a company.” SH

“She doesn’t know (…)

without being doped with whiskey- I’d go mad with fright” SH

“That boy’s a

hero worshipper” SH

“I rather liked the idea

of looking after him” SH

“When the war’s over- and the strain’s gone-

you’ll soon be fit as ever, at your age” Osb

“There’s something very deep,

and rather fine, about hero-worship” Osb

“OSBORNE helps him on to the bed,

takes the blanket and puts it over him”

“Dear old uncle.

Tuck me up”

“Kiss me, uncle.”

“Kiss you be blowed! You go to sleep”

“Through the stillness comes the

low rumble of distant guns”

“He just said, “better go to bed, Raleigh” -

just as if Raleigh’d been a school kid” Trotter

“geraniums, lobelia, and calceolaria- you know,

red, white and blue” Trotter

“I used to cycle out to the woods and get

primroses and things like that, and try and get ‘em to grow in my garden” Osb

“Pressed a bit of moss

round them” Osb

“About the breadth

of a Rugger field” Osb

“He makes things feel-

natural” Ral

“The German officer fired

some lights for them to see by” Osb

“It all seems rather-

silly, doesn’t it?”

“We shall be in

the front row of the stalls” SH

“I’m glad it’s coming at last.

I’m sick of waiting” Osb

“He won’t see the point.

He’s no imagination” SH

“I suppose all his life Trotter

feels like you or I do when we’re drowsily drunk” SH

“Trotter looks at that wall

he just sees a brown surface” SH

“D’you ever get a sudden feeling that every-thing’s going farther and farther away -

till you’re the only thing in the world” SH

“I never knew the sun could rise

in so many ways till I came out here” Osb

“We pretended there wasn’t any war at all-

till my two youngsters made me help in a tin-soldier battle on the floor” Osb

“It’s all a damn nuisance; but,

after all- it’s necessary” Colonel

“It’s a hell of a disgrace-

to die like that” SH

“You don’t deserve to

be shot by accident” SH

“Shall we go on together? We know how we both feel now.

Shall we see if we can stick it on together?” SH

“I don’t care. What does it matter?

It’s all so- so beastly- nothing matters” Hibbert

“What a damn

nuisance!” Trotter

“Joking apart. It’s damn ridiculous making

a raid when the Boche are expecting it”

“I say- it’s

most frightfully exciting!” Ral

“If you succeed, I’ll recommend

you both for the MC” Colonel

“We’ll have the rum afterwards-

to celebrate” Osb

“How topping if we both get

the MC!” Ral

“I do hate leaving a pipe when

it’s got a nice glow on the top like that” Osb

“How awfully nice-

if the brigadier’s pleased” SH

“The glow of the Very lights begins

to rise and fade against the evening sky”

“Must you sit

on Osborne’s bed?” SH

“Heavy guns are booming

miles away”

“the dug-out is lit quite

festively by an unusual number of candles”

“Oh, skipper, you

are a scream” Trotter (using their dialect)

“I never ‘ad

no motor-car” Trotter

“Shanks’ mare”

“Shanks’ what?”

“There’s a nice pair

of legs for you” Hibbert

“He actually told you he preferred being up

with the men better than down here?” SH

“We were having a jolly decent evening

till you started blabbing about the war” SH

“I envy you Trotter. Nothing upsets you,

does it? You’re always the same” SH

“You realise you’re my

second in command now, don’t you?” SH

“Thanks (…)

I won’t let you down.” Trotter

“thought you’d have the common sense

to leave the men alone to their meals” SH

“The one man i could trust-

my best friend” SH "

“To forget, you little fool- to forget! (…)

You think there’s no limit to what a man can bear?” SH

“STANHOPE lies huddled with his blanket

drawn tightly around him”

“Wash and

brush up, tuppence!” Trotter

“STANHOPE covers RALEIGH with his blanket,

looks intently at the boy”

“Hullo- Dennis-”

“Well- Jimmy (he smiles)”

“It’s alright, old chap;

it’s just the shock- numbed them” SH

“The shock stabs out the candle-flame; the timber props of the door cave slowly in,

sandbags fall and block the passage to the open air”