Correspondent: General, we're told of wonder weapons the Germans were working on: Long-range rockets, push-button bombing weapons that don't need soldiers. What's your take on that? Patton: Wonder weapons? My God, I don't see the wonder in them. Kill...
General Alfred Jodl: [German military personnel are frantically burning papers in a disordered headquarters as they prepare to retreat] [Subtitle] General Alfred Jodl: Hurry, Steiger. I want everything destroyed. Papers, maps, everything! Capt. Oskar...
Patton: Look at that, gentlemen. Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance.
General Alfred Jodl: This is the end... the end.
Capt. Oskar Steiger: The pure warrior... a magnificent anachronism.
Patton: "Despicable". That's the first time anyone's ever applied that word to me.
Patton: I don't know why, but the image of a bullet coming straight for my nose was more horrifying than anything else. General Omar N. Bradley: Well, I can understand that, George, it's such a handsome nose.
Patton: I'm not going to subsidize cowardice.
Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: G2 also reports that Hitler probably retained Rommel in Berlin because things were going badly for the Afrika Korps. He didn't want his favorite general to lose face. Patton: Well, I'm my favorite General. I don't want to ...
Patton: [Bradley frowns as Patton pins on his new stars] What's the matter, Brad? I've been nominated by the president. General Omar N. Bradley: I know... but it doesn't become official until it's been approved by the Senate. Patton: Well, they have ...
Patton: [Patton is apologizing to the troops after the slapping incident] I thought I would stand here like this so you could see if I was really as big a son of a bitch as you think I am.
Capt. Oskar Steiger: [explaining Patton's attitude toward war] Sir, do you not see? General Alfred Jodl: What? Capt. Oskar Steiger: Don Quixote battles six merchants from Toledo and saves Dulcinea's virtue! General Alfred Jodl: Who the devil is Dulci...
Patton: [as he watches Moroccan soldiers taking part in a parade] Magnificent! I wish our troops looked that good!
Soldier 1: There goes old blood-and-guts. Soldier 2: Yeah, our blood, his guts.
Lt. Col. Charles R. Codman: Shall I call the artist back sir? Patton: To hell with it. Nobody wants to see a picture of me, I'm mad! Didn't you know that?
