Pat Quinlan Quotes in The Siege of Jadotville (2016)

Pat Quinlan: Not many Frenchmen like German tacticians. It only took them two weeks to take over your entire country.

Charles Cooley: What's it like getting shot?

Pat Quinlan: I wouldn't recommend it.

Rene Faulques: You do realize that you are outnumbered by a factor of twenty.

Pat Quinlan: I see a lot of dead men here. None of them are mine.

General McEntee: Carry out your orders, commandant. Hold your ground. Defend Jadotville.

Pat Quinlan: With what? A firm tone?

Pat Quinlan: We'll hold out until our last bullet is spent. We could do with that whiskey.

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Pat Quinlan: [narrating] I once heard a man say that, in Africa, the sun is like a furnace that either melts you or forges you.

Pat Quinlan: [briefing new troops] Nobody has shot at you, tried to kill you before. You are war virgins.

John Gorman: I felt scared.

Pat Quinlan: It's only natural.

John Gorman: No, that's not it. I was scared. But then I liked it. The killing.

Pat Quinlan: It's what you're trained to do.

John Gorman: *You* didn't like it.

Pat Quinlan: Each man reacts differently to killing another man. None of us have done this before. Talk to me in a few days.