But ruffian stern, and soldier good, The noble and the slave, From various cause the same wild road, On the same bloody morning, trode, To that dark innöthe Grave!

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lord of the Isles, canto 6, stanza 26.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Man to Raina. Arms and the Man, act1.

Oh, you are a very poor soldieröa chocolate cream soldier!

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Raina toThe Man. Arms and the Man, act1.

I never expect a soldier to think, sir.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Richard Dudgeon to Major Swindon. The Devil's Disciple, act 3.

Your friend the British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Gen Burgoyne to Major Swindon.The Devil's Disciple, act 3.

As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  The Statue. Man and Superman, act 3.

'A soldier,'cried my uncleToby, interrupting the corporal, 'isno more exempt fromsaying a foolishthing,Trim, than a man of letters.'ö'But not so often, an'please your honour,'replied the corporal.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.8, ch.19.

Asked by the chairmantheusual question: 'Iunderstand, Mr Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to war?' hereplied (inhis curiousfalsettovoice),'Ohno, not at all, only to this war.'Better thanthiswashisreply tothe chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant.'Tell me, Mr Strachey, what would youdoif yousawa Germansoldier trying to violate your sister?' With an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them.'

-Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
On his appearance before a military tribunal, in Robert Graves GoodbyeToAllThat (1929), ch.23.

'Forward, the Light Brigade!' Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew In Memoriam A.H.H. Some one had blundered: Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered.

-Tennyson
  'The Charge of the Light Brigade', l.9^21.

When we assumed the soldier, we did not lay aside the citizen.

-Washington, BookerTaliaferro
  Address to the NewYork legislature, 26 Jun.